Word: alibiing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grilled Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare on the subject of Abyssinia and the League during a one-hour question period in which it was intimated that Great Britain's alibi for abandoning Ethiopia to the Italians may be that Ethiopia is a barbarous, slave-ridden country unworthy of League membership. Declaring that Ethiopians had made slave raids on some of Britain's African colonies, Sir William Davison cried: "Does the Foreign Minister not consider Abyssinia as not having fulfilled the expressed condition [abolition of slavery] on which it was admitted to membership of the League...
...dressing room mentally counting the $88,000 which was his share of the proceeds, urbane Ex-Champion Baer sipped a bottle of beer, displayed a broken right hand, a left hand with a badly swollen knuckle. ''No alibi," said he cheerfully. "Jim fought a good fight and I hope he's more appreciative of the title than I was. ... I really think I ought to quit...
...Alibi Ike (Warner). Joe E. Brown had a good time making this picture. Its baseball background harks back to the time when he was given a tryout with the New York Yankees. He still plays whenever he can. He owns a piece of the Kansas City Blues (American Association) and is now reported dickering with Judge Emil Fuchs for a sharehold in the Boston Braves...
...Alibi Ike, considerably adapted, is the Ring Lardner pitcher who could never give a straight question a straight answer. Particularly oblique is Ike when questions bear on his sentiments for Dolly (Olivia de Havilland). It is not the wiles of Crooked Gamblers but depression over a spat with Dolly, who has heard him alibying their engagement, that makes him lose the ball game. Nobody believes him until he steals an ambulance in which his enemies have kidnapped him and gets to the ball park in time to win another...
...sees that she cannot return his love, he says good-by to her. The old man, out of sheer fiendishness, kills an inoffensive Italian window-washer and an Irish bartender, then has Johnny arrested for murder. Because the old man swears he was an eyewitness and Johnny's alibi is weak, things look black for him. But with Johnny in deadly peril, Trelia's love suddenly awakens, matures overnight. With a woman's unerring instinct, she liquidates the little old man. The State's case collapses, Johnny is set free. Trelia comes to live with...