Word: alibis
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...court where twelve stern-eyed Mainemen had heard young Paul Dwyer, serving a life sentence for the murder of 63-year-old Dr. James Littlefield, accuse Father Carroll of the crime (TIME, Aug. 15). Father Carroll flatly denied his guilt. Confronted on the stand with the fact that his alibi (serving a summons) covered not the night of the crime but the night before, Francis Carroll stuttered, reddened, said he had mixed his dates...
...buxom, sentimental blonde, a sort of Mae West figure of Justice, who suspects that her friend the reporter has met foul play, gradually uncovers the evidence herself. The other is a mousy, 17-year-old waitress who knows the weak point in Pinkie's alibi. To shut the waitress' mouth, Pinkie cold-bloodedly makes love to her, meets with complete and, to him, nauseating success. "She loves me, she loves me not," he muses with characteristic humor, carefully pulling off the wings and legs of a fly. To shut the mouth of one of his own gang, Pinkie...
...England will help Csechs it won't be because they like them, but because they know after they would get Csech German would turn on them. Hitler wants war and the sudeten half Czechs and half German is not the reason but it would be his alibi...
...brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found" one of the ransom notes under Brother Cash's store door, 2) he remarked how easy it would be to break into their house. They told Sheriff Coleman, who trapped McCall in a fake alibi and turned him over to the G-men. Not for a week did he "crack" under their questioning...
...synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical of his talent is his alibi for hanging around his Kansas City landlady's daughter: "When a man denies himself all feminine companionship," reflects Homer, "he is likely to warp his cosmos...