Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Besides misleading and overwhelming newspaper publicity, the blame for the above-mentioned municipal ostracism can be laid to the prevailing inability to separate a man from his actions, to discriminate between the flower and the soil. Chaplin's films are, the really important thing about him, but they are barred because he is suspected of not being fit to teach Sunday School. Also symptomatic of the same disease working in a contrary direction is the public refusal to discriminate between Ty Cobb's batting average and his personal honesty...
...against "Ma" Ferguson that the blame should be laid for her freak administration, but rather against the people of Texas who supported her candidature. Mrs. Ferguson in seeking election was actuated by the very real desire to see her impeached husband vindicated. She made her personal grievance the chief plank in her platform. The sentiment of the Texas electorate was stirred, to the quick, and Mrs. Ferguson was elected. Her failure may be regarded as a rather salutary object lesson in the evils attendant upon unthinking balloting...
...stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances to distinguish a white man from a Negro, notwithstanding the well-known fact that intermarriage between the races is strictly forbidden by Southern laws! May we ask Poynter who is to blame? Certainly not the despised...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...
...white lie. You can't blame Fall very much for that. He would have had a yellow streak a foot wide if he hadn't tried to protect his old friend after all Doheny had done for him." Then the jurors paused for dinner, sang "Bye, Bye, Blackbird," argued, turned on the phonograph, argued, slept, argued. . . . At 9:30 a.m., another ballot was taken. The vote was unanimous for acquittal...