Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit. . . .† Finally, the blame for this deficit will rest upon the Government because of its policy during the coal Ktrike [TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29]." Significance. Behind the Conservative Cabinet supporting Chancellor Churchill is a parliamentary majority so large that the attack of onetime Chancellor Snowden did not even draw a reply last...
...Baron Carson, quavering 73-year-old Irish Life Peer: "It's high time . . . [Pause] ... I say it is high time that the Lords asserted themselves! . . . "However . . . [Pause] . . . some of us are to blame. . . . There are about 700 peers . . . [Pause] . . . and yet I notice, whenever I come here that 50 seems . . . [Pause] ... to be a good average attendance...
Many and various have been the theories as to the causes for these deaths. On them have been prepared general indictments of our whole psychology, philosophy, and social system. Clergymen lay the blame on materialism, lack of religious training, breakdown of family life. Others lay it to incomplete education, as evidence of the dangers of half-knowledge. Freudians smugly smile, and talk of repressions. There is a general "I told you so" air about them all. Whatever way it is regarded, though, the situation seems to cast reflection upon college education...
...their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara-kiri (self-disembowelment) upon the doorstep of an insulter...
...will!" raged Student Slovo-chotov, "I am prepared to do anything at any time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife...