Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week this lady, now resident at her villa "Lillie" in Monte Carlo, said: "In the old days a thing like this would have been settled by a horse whipping. . . . It is hard to have blame fastened upon me for things I never did, and to have become the weapon for an attack upon the memory of Mr. Gladstone, for whom I have always had the greatest respect. . . . I do not suppose I met him half a dozen times in my life . . . but he always left me with the feeling that he was essentially a good man. . . . I remember that...
When asked for the opinion concerning the Mexican situation Bob laid the blame on the two factions in Mexico. "Mexicans ain't all there," opined Bob. "They don't know how to manage. Two factions raise all the racket. It's the same in China. The Chinese have so many languages among themselves. We are also more civilized than the Chinese, we know how to act, how to control ourselves. They can only say "no checkee . . . no laundree". But it's different with the Italians. They made good in this country. It it wasn't for them we wouldn...
...Princetonian, on the other hand, part of whose comment is reprinted in another column, places the blame upon "under-education." This criticism strikes much nearer to the heart of the matter. Rendering unity out of chaos is a salutary process for the individual, and a necessary operation for the educational institution. It is hardly to be denied that the synthesis of life of which the Princetonian speaks is too often submerged under the mass of analytic facts and information with which education is today encumbered. It is a situation which has been recognized increasingly in recent years. The "civilizational" education...
...reverence the Confucian civilization, blending it with the Christian faith, much as Greek philosophy was incorporated with Christianity at the beginning of our era. ... At present the 'converted' Chinese regard civilization as a thing purely material. . . . For this false and dangerous view England must accept her share of blame...
...sure that the college boys of today are not what they used to be. They no longer have the courage to hang outside the stage door. I blame this--well, we might as well blame it on football. I guess that royal sport can stand one more knock. It's-well, that's my oue, Au revoir...