Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came, and the recall petition blossomed only to the extent of some 40,000 signatures; Governor Hartley smiled. January came and less than 60,000 had scrawled their names; Governor Hartley must have laughed. Illuminating was the alibi of the recall promoters. They feel confident, they said, that the necessary 97,576 names could quickly be secured if solicitors could be employed at regular day wages or on the basis of so much per signature (like a sales troupe going from house to house, selling washing machines). But the law of Washington frowns on such practices; and the recall-promoters...
...feeling of many Princeton men that Harvard is chafing under recent defeats, that she is unsportsmanlike like and seeks an alibi for her athletic failures...
Since the trial, however, hinged upon a choice between two sets of conflicting evidence, it is by no means clear that the new evidence consisting chiefly of a confirmation of the defence alibi, would have been altogether negligible. The credibility of this evidence, to be sure, is doubtful, but it compares favorably, nevertheless, with that introduced at the trial. Furthermore the zeal of the attorney-general upon that occasion so far transcended the bounds of ordinary legal ethics as to bring sharp criticism from the journals of opinion. And although circumstantial evidence and the past record of Chapman point very...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
...trying to save her mother's reputation by spreading the account that Paris took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...