Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Steel (Milton Sills-Doris Kenyon). The pictorial possibilities of the steel mills are boldly seized upon by this endeavor and frittered away on a silly story. Mr. Sills plays a worker who assumes the blame for a murder, committed by the girl he loves. He escapes to the East and takes up his trade in other mills. The story follows him. The blistering scenery of steel manufacture surrounds the slothful narrative impressively. Perhaps the story might be eliminated and the remains be used for a two-reel educational...
Smacking down his fist the Premier concluded: "I will make no attempt to apportion the blame for the stubbornness and folly which have resulted in the continuance of this strike. ... I have laid before the House the steps which the government proposes to take whether a settlement between the miners and owners is reached...
...blame for this uninspiring denouement may lie with the student who prepared his work poorly or it may be laid to the essentially unimaginative character of examinations. Any set of questions to be answered within a short time tend to put a premium either on uninspired mimicry or a certain superficial facility with pen and mind...
...anyone who has seen 'Caste" knows. Prof. Watson never sneers at the audiences which found such plays reasonably satisfactory, provided that vivida vis were present; quite surprisingly he holds a brief for popular taste and decides that though "an English audience must be forcibly amused," it is useless to blame public taste, which would have appreciated a vital drama, had there been any. "The trend of theatrical vitality is, in the main, good," and even the lively arts of force, burlesque and melodrama made important contributions in the evolution towards "appropriateness and nature...
...Court to place the entire blame upon my shoulders. I beg for the acquittal of the men who obeyed my orders, seeing in me their protector in a great service to the fatherland...