Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp his cosmos...
...Alibi. Since it is unpleasant for any Great Power to have to offer its money at cut rates, the excuse of dire emergency is always offered in such cases, and Orator Daladier went on the air with this vibrant alibi: "The truth is that our economic life is in a very bad condition; that legitimate profit is tending to disappear; that partial unemployment is increasing in every branch of industry; that our trade balance is impoverishing us; that our production figures are a humiliation for all Frenchmen...
...Government officials an alibi is always more acceptable than bad news and last week many New Dealers were busy talking about a different set of Government statistics: figures comparing the size of industrial inventories last September with that in other months and years. This data showed that in December 1929, 50 "representative manufacturers" (only three mentioned by name were Chrysler, General Motors and Pullman) had inventories totaling $232,456,000. On Sept. 30, 1937 the same 50 had inventories of $285,606,000. In short, these concerns had more goods on hand when the current depression began than they...
...decade sportsfans have known that the "Carey" of Ring Lardner's immortal Alibi Ike is only a faint camouflage for the bowlegged, wisecracking figure of Charles Dillon ("Casey") Stengel, 46, baseball's No. 1 living legend. Last week Casey Stengel got ready to enlarge the legend...
Featured in a recent movie was a trick of Liebowitz's in the Romano murder trial. All Romano had was an alibi that he had been working in a fishmarket at the time the murder happened. The prosecutor brought in a basket of fish, held them up one by one. Romano named all wrong. The prosecution grinned, rested. Liebowitz jumped up, appealed to the Jews on the jury. Romano had been working in a kosher fish market. "Why they're trying to convict him on Christian fish!" he thundered. The jury acquitted...