Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since the case seems clearly outlined and since judgment is to be passed so literally, it seems as though there is one loophole apparently overlooked that should provide an alibi for the frog in case of failure. According to the statement of the case the tradition in question claims no more for the frog than that he can live one hundred years without food or water. There seems to be no claim that the frog could live for thirty years without sun, air, and exercise, and while it is not explicitly stated that the corner stone lacked adequate ventilation...
...Constance's. Constance knows of the liaison but has decided to ignore it as long as she can. The situation comes to a head, however, when Mortimer, husband of Marie Louise, bursts in, and accuses John and Marie Louise before Constance. The latter, clever lady, concocts a magnificent alibi for her husband and his mistress, and Mortimer goes away, abject, to buy his wife a string of pearls, as heart-balm for his suspicions of her. Constance then advises Marie Louise and Mortimer to go away for a year, which they do. It then appears that Constance was no more...
...anew the significance of the motto, or the Forecast coat-of-arms. We stood together in my library my hand on little Joe's shoulder; and I pointed to the famous Forecast crest--crossed shovels, a sitting bull couchant on a field gules argent, with the scutcheon emblazoned "Nimmermehr Alibi" And I said, "My son, remember this and live up to it as I have done...
Such action pertinently suggested that Jugoslavia, after breaking off relations with Albania, would shortly declare war. The Albanian note to the League Council last week was therefore in the nature of a national alibi, registered with the League, so that, if war breaks out, Dictator Ahmed Bey Zogu of Albania may disclaim all responsibility before the world...
...wars, each party has its victories to boast, its defeats to alibi. The Shelton adherents slapped thighs, exchanged felicitations over the destruction of "Shady Rest", an old roadhouse fortified as Birger headquarters. In November, some of the Shelton gang, progressive, modern-minded, bought an airplane, dropped bombs, scarred the landscape, missed "Shady Rest." Undiscouraged, they waited for a dark January night, crept close up under "Shady Rest's" steel-barred windows, stacked dynamite against its walls. A roar, a glare, and "Shady Rest" was a flaming ruin, tenanted by four dead bodies-three men, one woman. But Gunman Birger...