Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though the stingy businessman's name was concealed, last week, it is natural for German reporters to dub him "Polish," just as Paris and London dailies hang their best anonymous stories on "an American," often when some prankish Argentine or tippling Russian is to blame...
Joseph Jacques Cesaire Joffre is the "ThickHeaded Marshal," if his many savage critics are to be believed. They concede that his phlegmatic refusal to be defeated at the Marne (after appalling losses) saved Paris. But they blame him for the still more titanic losses suffered by the Allies in their failure to push through the great Offensive of the Somme. Placid "Papa" Joffre is even now dictating his vindication, his book-and promises to spare no critic...
French journals sought to pacify, laid the blame on antiFascists, signalled a return of cordial relations between the two countries...
...Latvia's Keyserling the Englishman seems an "animal-man," a creature in which instinct and will dwarf brain, nay he seems "a horseman, with corresponding equine features." His most ruthless acts are forgiven and forgotten, because no one can blame an animal for its instinctive acts of acquisitive ferocity...
...hearing, once declared that in 100 years all people would be deaf. Of course he was exaggerating. Yet it is certain that hearing defects have been increasing. In England one-third of the population, it is estimated, cannot hear perfectly. Doctors are investigating. One important cause that they blame is city noises. The cacophony injures the auditory nerves, the brain, the whole nervous system...