Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hatreds as well as admirations inspired him. The Philistine was started to pay off old scores against publishers who had sent rejection slips. His inconsistencies stimulated many an epigrammatic alibi which passed as sageness. Denounced by Kipling, Shaw, Jack London, most other authors who had dealings with him, he aphorized on the heartaches of friendship: "Let a man come close enough and he'll clutch you like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your...
...Smith. Her paternal great-grandmother was a gypsy named Bathsheba. As between her title and her gypsy blood, Lady Eleanor much prefers to have inherited the gypsy blood. The reason will be readily seen in her autobiography, Life's a Circus: Hotblooded Bathsheba is the perfect alibi for Lady Eleanor's Bohemian adventures, particularly her passionate interest in gypsies and circuses, already productive of two best-selling novels (Red Wagon, Flamenco...
...last war, he said, with candor, that it was lost by the Versailles Treaty-"The Allied Powers threw away their chance, both by faults of omission and commission. . . . For that tragedy no nation and no statesman can establish a full alibi." But he denied that "this is a mere war between imperialisms," and foresaw some better peace, based not on spoils but on a federalized Europe...