Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bitterly upon an announcement made last week that the five men now charged with the "unpremeditated murder" of Matteotti are to be tried at Chieti next month. Said she: "I am withdrawing my lawyers. I shall ignore the trial. Through the machinations of the Fascist government those actually to blame will not be tried. It would be repugnant to me to participate in such a comedy...
...children were cunning and daring enough to cheat anyway. When instructors left the room, or dawdled inattentively to give iniquity free rein, the cheaters seized their chance, passed notes, made signs, craned necks, copied from grubby "ponies." 80% of the group joined in. Dr. May did not blame human nature, but the "immoral" examination system. "To some children," he said, "the passing of an examination is a matter of life and death. In some children there are emotional characteristics developed which the children would not have but for the examinations...
President James Rowland Angell's annual report was published. This voiced the current conviction of administrators that college is at once too easy and too narrow for the student. President Angell placed his blame back on the preparatory schools and the parents; declared that young men should be graduated from college at least two years younger (at 19); deplored "lockstep" systems and indicated intensity as the desirable concomitant to more liberal teaching methods. The general tenor of the report was, "Give them liberty, but give them work." Interesting specifications were: "Too long and possibly too many vacations. . . . Too many...
...school Tory, he would not divorce her. He set his jaw, closed his mansion, saw his father commit suicide, his mother die of grief, when he was bruited a maquereau, (wife-seller). His code, so ancient that society could not recognize it, commanded silence. He took the blame, pretending to have liaisons of his own. When, furious at her failure to make him wince, she asked to return to his house, he admitted her without altering his expression. Thus her malice and his stoicism continued until they combined to drive her into a convent. The War took...
Capitalistic enterprises, however, are not alone responsible for American imperialism in the Pacific. The people who gaze proudly at the blotch of color on the map which represents "our island empire" or speak complacently of bringing civilization to the natives are equally to blame for this continued departure from American principles. Philippine nationalists are grimly convinced that America is being given a distorted picture of conditions there. Their attempt to forbid the mailing of photographs of the tribes on the outlying islands was the result of this feeling. In reality the Philippines have attained a high degree of civilization according...