Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three are of the older generation, Rose being our heroine. She discovers her love for Hero Francis Sales only after he has married another girl. When Mrs. Sales becomes an invalid after a hunting accident, Rose does not let the fact that she was per-haps a little to blame for the mishap interfere with a pure but clandestine love affair with Francis. Henrietta, Rose's pert niece, also likes Francis, but finds after experimenting with him that she likes Charles Batty better. So, when Sales' wife dies, Rose marries him and Henrietta goes Batty...
Later in the week, Governor Small agreed to pay the State of Illinois $650,000 in settlement of a certain civil suit against him. In return for this payment, he was absolved from blame in connection with the money involved in the suit...
...American Jews are complacent and well-fed. And in all general Jewish questions they imagine that they need nothing at all, that their role in Jewish life is only to give, to provide for the poor east-European Jews, who depend on their aid. A good deal of the blame for this state of things must be placed at the door of our envoys from eastern Europe, who have made a habit of going to America to collect money...
...universities the much hearalded indifference of Harvard men made the task of the early Herald-Crimson particularly trying. In 1884, the first year of the new daily, protests by undergraduates about the scantiness of the news appearing in its columns brought forth a vigorous editorial answer in which the blame was shifted to the general student body...
...have heard wonder expressed," says the writer, "that the Herald-Crimson does not contain more items of college news, but it is fair to say that the 'Fact and Rumor' column is somewhat deficient in that respect. But who is to blame for this state of things...