Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...getting its news out in the shortest possible time. But seven days, in this age, means much to news. There is always embarrassment for me when I am informed by friends that topics that I introduce for discussion often prove a week or two weeks old. This, I blame to TIME...
...subscribee about a year ago, when a wealthy friend celebrated the Christmas season by sending you my name plus five dollars. I have never before heard of a subscribee-so far as I know, therefore, I am THE Original Subscribee. I am not writing either to praise or blame TIME, but merely to ask your aid. I examine the wrapper of my copy carefully each week, and I am distressed to note that the expiration date thereon has not yet been advanced to include 1927. This embarrasses me. I am given to understand that I have been brought up genteel...
...dispute over the lowering of the water level of the Great Lakes (TIME, Nov. 22) Canada is as much to blame as the Chicago Drainage Canal. The diversion of water through the Chicago Drainage Canal has lowered the Great Lakes' level six inches, whereas the Welland Canal and the St. Clair River gravel dredgings have lowered it seven inches. By an expenditure of $3,600,000 on compensating works, the level could be raised 14 inches...
Next day, Henry Hudson, faithful Negro servant to the Governor, shouldered all the blame; pleaded guilty to the ownership of the confiscated liquor. "Henry, how could you?" said the Governor; forth with announcing that he would pardon honest Henry before retiring from his office in January...
...more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there are no "fistic exhibitions", and the champion is left to reflect bitterly on the inconstancy of fortune. No one--except perhaps Mr. Dempsey -- will blame Mr. Tunney for giving birth to the blues...