Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet ahead after 50 yd., a half-length at the half-mile, three lengths at the halfway mark, where both crews were stroking evenly in the low thirties, a mile and a half from the finish. Hopelessly outclassed, without even waterlogged seats for an alibi, California's crew pulled bravely on at a stroke that went up to 42 in the last half-mile. At the roaring, whistling finish, they were seven lengths behind...
...Park Avenue apartment. Margot Hale, an actress, decides to shield her friend, even at the risk of ruining her career. An ambitious playwright, Philip Elton, finds the situation almost identical with the circumstances at the climax of a play he is reading to Miss Hale. The obvious alibi is given to the police--they were rehearsing and "she didn't know it was loaded." A garrulous doorman (who once procured a chiropractor when an obstetrician was needed) arouses the suspicions of the police when he reveals many of the lies Elton has told to explain his presence and the presence...
...Panama in the course of a Wanderwell tour. He also admitted illegal entry into the U. S., said he voted in the last election. But Suspect Guy denied killing Wanderwell. although he curiously paraphrased Mrs. Wanderwell's observation that many would have liked to kill him. An alibi supplied by several aviator friends, followed by his re-enactment of the stranger's visit to the Carma, convinced a coroner's jury that William Guy was not the man wanted. But both he and Lord Edward were detained for immigration authorities...
Through three rather long acts interest is maintained by shifting the object of attention subtly and effectively. First the persecutor's alibi depends upon a green chartreuse bottle, then an overcoat button, and finally upon establishing the presence of the same blood on a pair of gloves and a knife. Suspense rises to a pitch at the end of the first scene in act three; the last two scenes are lamentably weak perhaps because of their brevity. The author has injected several squibs in the Shavian manner, such as "today women are either supermen or twittering neurasthenics," which neither pass...
...fifth man to die in supposed reprisal for the murder 18 months ago of Giuseppe ("Joe the Boss") Masseria, onetime head of Unione Sicilione, friend of "Scarface Al" Capone. Masseria was shot to death in Scarpato's restaurant at Coney Island. Although Scarpato presented a perfect alibi, he lived in mortal dread of vengeance, insisted that police record his fingerprints, had his full name tattooed on his left arm. Died. Florence Agnes Amberg Hurley, 47, second wife of famed Chicago Businessman Edward Nash Hurley; of injuries received in an automobile accident; at Berkeley near Chicago. Mr. Hurley...