Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Sunday the jazz band which has already played at the Alibi Club in Lynn, will again join in the jazz sessions at the Savoy...
...even illogical. In order to pursue a program, he had to exercise political control over the committees and the men who ran them. A Democratic-controlled Senate could pretty well sabotage a legislative program. A Republican Senate would make things much clearer. Dewey would then not have an alibi for failures, as Harry Truman had had with a Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
Casey is reportedly one of the models for Ring Lardner's Alibi Ike characters, and when he got the job last week, Manhattan columnists all rushed to their typewriters to tell what a funny man he was. They obviously couldn't do him justice: his kind of deadpan, spun-out comedy was hard to describe. Grinning with happy memories, the columnists tried to tell how funny it was the time Casey purposely disappeared into a manhole in centerfield, or the time Casey tipped his cap to an umpire, and out flew a sparrow...
...detective scoffs at the old society-is-to-blame alibi by reminding the thug that they both started with exactly the same disadvantages. Before the picture is over, the criminal has proved that law-breaking is the least of the things which put him outside the pale. Without ever showing a flicker of remorse, he double-crosses a fellow crook, murders a lawyer (elegantly played by Berry Kroeger), charms a hard spinster nurse (Betty Garde) into criminal complicity, endangers the life of a trusting floozy (Shelley Winters), lands a pathetic doctor (Konstantin Shayne) in trouble with the law, assiduously corrupts...
...Alibi. In Alexandria, Va., Suspect James J. E. Davis explained to police why he could not have killed a policeman: he was eight blocks away at the time, robbing a gas station...