Word: alibied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alibi. In Coral Gables, Fla., when Beverly Talley identified Robert G. Tardif as the man who was peeping in her windows, Tardif indignantly retorted: "She couldn't identify me. She was in the closet...
...listless workers, of idle and broken machinery, of incoherent direction, demanded action in Moscow. One day last month Pravda's lead article criticized the slowness of the Kazakhstan sowing and warned that the authorities on the scene would not be allowed to hide behind poor weather as an alibi. Nikita Khrushchev himself found it necessary to rush east to meet with the Kazakh Communist Party and discuss "at length" the problems of the virgin lands...
...decides to murder her for her money rather than wait for her to leave him. A solicitous sort who doesn't want to hurt anyone unnecessarily, Milland arranges to spend the night of the murder on the town with his wife's lover (Robert Cummings) as his alibi. For his murder weapon, he selects an old college acquaintance who is amoral as an alley cat. The scene in which Milland bends Actor Dawson to his will is a theatrical delight...
...which Dr. Gonzales himself pioneered was the spectrograph. In 1942 the husband of a woman found strangled in Central Park had seven witnesses to swear that he had been at a dance at the time of her death. But spectrograph analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case that sent him to the electric chair...
...great periods of acting, the scenery side has only been lightly emphasized. The actor should be, though I don't want to glorify him too much, a little demagogue. The reason that people give for the theatre dying is that it is too expensive. This is only an alibi: naturalism is costly; imagination doesn't cost very much...