Word: alibis
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...week's end, Rivera ungraciously exposed Siqueiros' attempt to supply him with an alibi. In a letter to El Popular Diego admitted that he had indeed shot at the bus driver-but with a blank cartridge. Denouncing efforts to picture him as a lover of the proletariat who went around shooting proletarians, Rivera said that he had shot in self-defense after the bus driver had tried to run him down. He had been coming home peacefully in his station wagon, he said, when he found the Calle Centenario blocked by a bus. There were excited words, spiced...
...describe the feelings of the team as we enter the Yale game, I would say that we are determined. We're determined to prove to ourselves and to the University that as disappointing as the season has been, we have a fine squad. We're not trying to alibi or explain-we simply mean to win. JOHN JUDKINS (manager): When we leave for New Haven this morning, there well be but one thought in our minds-beat Yale. The team is in the beat mental and physical shape of the season. If the student body will back us tomorrow...
...have proved our point that the Republicans can be beaten in the next national election." In Lehigh County the G.O.P. upped its 1946 margin of 54.4% to 55.1%-What pained the Democrats most was the national attention which the election got. They had started the fight; they could not alibi their way out of it now. The P.A.C. had poured out money and speakers whose principal campaign weapon was a pun: they called the new labor law the "Tuff-Heartless Act." Phil Murray, Walter Reuther, Alexander Whitney and other brasshats of labor had issued statements; Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. lent...
Swift Nicks, another highwayman "invented and perpetrated," according to Miss de la Torre, "the first faked alibi on record." He robbed a gentleman at Gad's Hill near London at 4 in the morning, and by hard riding reached York (180 miles away) in the afternoon; "put off his Boots and riding Cloaths, and went dress'd as if be had been an Inhabitant of the Place to the Bowling-green," where he asked the Lord Mayor what time it was. Later a jury acquitted him, on his lordship's swearing to his alibi. King Charles...
...Parliament as a Liberal, and he is the brother of a lord (Sir Cedric Hardwicke). After the young people are married, it develops that Teresa has been mixed up with a hot-tempered Spanish concert pianist (Anthony Quinn) whom the police suspect of murder. If she furnishes his alibi, she-and her husband-will be forever compromised. She and the audience know that it was a perfectly innocent night she spent with the musician-but will the British voters believe it? These faintly lubricous difficulties are ultimately straightened out in a court trial...