Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minute Alibi (by Anthony Armstrong; Crosby Gaige & Lee Shubert, producers). London has been excited about this play for the past ten months, and no wonder. Less ghoulish than Rope's End, as cleverly constructed as A. A. Milne's classic thriller The Perfect Alibi, Playwright Armstrong's piece leaps nimbly over all the stenciled pitfalls which ensnare such pedestrian efforts as Keeper of the Keys...
...gleam of hope. Moseley and Lane are up in the first-string lineup and are showing the much-needed pepper. Moseley is doing some of the passing and most of the carrying. He can run and does run wild through the Jayvees, and we must fall back on the alibi of waiting for the first game. He looks like Crickard but lacks the drive--slippery but not as powerful--and should show up well in the first game. He looks like Crickard but lacks the drive--slippery but not as powerful--and should show up well in the first...
...neither Daddy Graves nor offspring fear. TIME, no alibi for slackness about the house, is read by able Mamma Graves in a fraction of the time which stupid housewives waste...
...consecutive matches. When North Carolina's tennists last week completed their fifth tour of Northern colleges they had beaten Navy, Maryland, N. Y. U., Army, Yale, Harvard, Brown. The score of the Army match. 6 to 3, was the closest. This helped to shake the familiar alibi of the Northern colleges -that the Southerners have had two months more practice when they meet. Last week North Carolina's tennists made the alibi seem even more inadequate when they finished their 1933 schedule by winning the Southern Conference championship for the fourth year...
...Middleburg murders, insisting he had left Virginia months before the crime. To his defense rushed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Virginia's Governor Pollard asked Massachusetts' Governor Ely to send Crawford down to stand trial. There were formal hearings. Boston witnesses upheld his alibi. Virginia witnesses knocked it down. A confession was introduced only to be repudiated. Governor Ely signed papers for George Crawford's return to Virginia- when suddenly, last week, in stepped the might and majesty of the Federal Government. Overnight George Crawford became a national headline character potentially as famous...