Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democrats had not won the Assembly in 22 years, because New York is so gerrymandered that they need more than plain majorities to prevail against Republicans. Day after last week's election which sent 82 Republicans, 68 Democrats to the Assembly, the Postmaster General remembered his history. His alibi: in spite of defeat, 500,000 more Democratic than Republican votes had been cast...
...three records for events of its kind. It was the coldest anyone could remember. It drew such huge crowds-close to 50,000 for each game-that players got a bigger bonus than ever before: $6,831 for each of the winners. It produced the weirdest alibi ever offered by a losing team: "demoralization," brought on by abuse from an umpire...
...killed John Brunen, circus-owner, to get his business was suspected by Psychologist Parker because his alibi was so good. Innocent people usually do not remember exactly wrhat they did on the night of a crime...
Editor Tu produced the alibi that he was not in Shanghai when New Life prepared its gossip about Emperors and had not authorized the piece. Associate Editor Yih Sui, presumably responsible, was shown to have escaped to a place unknown. Thereupon, as a trim Japanese officer watched grimly in the courtroom, Editor Tu received the maximum sentence of 14 months in jail at hard labor...
When, two days later, Peacock beat Owens again in a 100-metre invitation race at Crystal Beach, Ont., track experts found another alibi for Owens' defeat in the possibility that he was preoccupied. Fortnight ago he was reported engaged to one Quincella Nickerson of Los Angeles. Last week, the night before his second defeat by Peacock, Owens hurried to a preacher, married a Cleveland beauty-parlor maid named Minnie Ruth Solomon, entrained for Buffalo alone after promising to bring her a ring when he returned. His explanation of the Nickerson episode: "We were at a party and Miss Nickerson asked...