Word: alibis
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...feeling of many Princeton men that Harvard is chafing under recent defeats, that she is unsportsmanlike like and seeks an alibi for her athletic failures...
Since the trial, however, hinged upon a choice between two sets of conflicting evidence, it is by no means clear that the new evidence consisting chiefly of a confirmation of the defence alibi, would have been altogether negligible. The credibility of this evidence, to be sure, is doubtful, but it compares favorably, nevertheless, with that introduced at the trial. Furthermore the zeal of the attorney-general upon that occasion so far transcended the bounds of ordinary legal ethics as to bring sharp criticism from the journals of opinion. And although circumstantial evidence and the past record of Chapman point very...
...Here are the expanding tire companies sicking the faithful Hoover on the British lion just when they are about to inflate prices. They want an alibi to gouge the public, so they bark at the East India rubber planter, whose empire protects him better than the Napoleonic sphinx of the White House, who, campaigning on the back of a cow, protects our farmers. [Laughter and applause...
...trying to save her mother's reputation by spreading the account that Paris took Helen (and some of the furniture) against her will, but that she never went to Troy-she had been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
...Republican newspapers this was too much. Why, they wanted to know, had Defense Minister Gessler allowed the Reichswehr to participate, if the unveiling was "unofficial"? Herr Gessler declared that a formal pledge was given him that the ceremony would be nonpolitical, and stuck to that alibi. Said the Socialist sheetlet Vorwaerts: "The monument was unveiled in the name of William II. The President of the Reich gave the representative of William II precedence, and participated in a ceremony at which the Reichswehr was incited to a breach of its oath. The game of Feldmarschall-today-and -tomorrow -President serves neither...