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Word: alibis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stalin and Hoover. If U. S. businessmen should refuse to sell Red Russia what she wants, gladly would British, German or even Japanese businessmen fill her orders. Christian, capitalist and patriot though he may be, the U. S. businessman has this perfect alibi far his traffic with the Reds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Everybody's Red Business | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

...repeal, 91,915 for modification, 80,739 for enforcement. Drys had been loudly warned by Dr. Ernest Hurst Cherrington, publicist for the Anti-Saloon League, not to vote in the Digest-poll, which he flayed as "uncontrolled, valueless." Wets accused Dr. Cherrington of trying to set up an alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Polls | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...copying Thurston. Augustus Thomas, who was an old friend of his father, got him a part in The Copperhead with Lionel Barrymore. After that he worked in various stock and Broadway plays. For some reason he has been more successful in pictures than anywhere else. Some of his films: Alibi, Woman Trap, Fast Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 17, 1930 | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...anyone who will install certain approved types of lettering made with myriads of facets to reflect the sun by day, equipped with concealed lamps to blaze up from the pavements at night. Ordinary painted signs will not do. For they do not support the shrewd Council's alibi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glorifying Paris | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...alibi: Paris, famed as "the City of Light," will not be debased and commercialized by the new scheme but made brighter, more glorious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Glorifying Paris | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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