Word: alibis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shares, is the largest stockholder) as long as the line owed the banks a dollar. He adopted a policy of gathering the line's executives together at semiannual meetings and hazing them unmercifully as they reported. Sample: "Now that's a hell of an alibi, if I ever heard one ... By comparison with what we know could be done, we smell to high heaven. Now put this on your Must List . . . memories are awfully short, especially yours...
Then for 20 minutes Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin, fiftyish, principal of Radford School for Girls in El Paso, Tex., waggled her finger and told St. Louis Rotarians what was wrong with U.S. parents and education. According to Dr. Templin, too many parents "pass the buck. Fathers alibi too much . . . take the path of least resistance, are too indulgent . . . lack integrity, brag at home about business deals, even though those deals have a tint of shadiness to them . . . It shows up in the children, who view ethical wrong as getting caught, ethical goodness as getting by." Parents let religious education...
...married to a cracker jack psychiatrist (Richard Conte), who never suspects that she is a kleptomaniac who can't sleep. Fearful of losing his high opinion, she goes for help to an unctuous hypnotist (José Ferrer). One night, while Svengali Ferrer is off setting up an alibi by having his gall bladder out, she wakes out of a trance to find herself a first-class murder suspect...