Word: alibis
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Pious Mohammedans rightly abhor such of their brethren as are so hypocritical as to drink spirits with the alibi that they are not drinking wine. Similarly Queen Wilhelmina has her own pious opinion of people who indulge in sport on Sunday, the Lord God's appointed Day of Rest. Therefore Her Majesty has been put in a quandary by the famed Olympic Games, now being held in Amsterdam with a pagan disregard of Sunday...
...Harvard should win, Yale has an obvious alibi. Harvard employs seven Full Professors to teach English to undergraduates; Yale has only five...
Three weeks after the event, Mr. Brand issued an alibi (see LETTERS). He had "gone over" his back files. "I find," he said, "that I was advocating, as a means of agricultural relief, the production of sugar and wool in the United States that we were purchasing abroad." Mr. Hoover said something to the same effect at that time so Mr. Brand thought Mr. Hoover would make the best Secretary of Agriculture possible. Later, he discovered that Mr. Hoover's ideas did not coincide with his own. "So my hopes for Mr. Hoover were blasted," said Mr. Brand...
Coincident with the release of Mr. Brand's alibi, Dr. Harry Augustus Garfield, president of Williams College and during the War, chairman of the Fair Price Committee, issued a statement: "Mr. Hoover had absolutely no part in this matter...
...since the case seems clearly outlined and since judgment is to be passed so literally, it seems as though there is one loophole apparently overlooked that should provide an alibi for the frog in case of failure. According to the statement of the case the tradition in question claims no more for the frog than that he can live one hundred years without food or water. There seems to be no claim that the frog could live for thirty years without sun, air, and exercise, and while it is not explicitly stated that the corner stone lacked adequate ventilation...