Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...part of the company stirred up a hornet's nest around Governess Ferguson and her husband "Jim." It was understood that Jim had picked the members of the Highway Commission, and he was known to have attended their meetings. So it was felt he should share the blame with them. Last week, with talk of impeachment in the air, two of the three Highway Commissioners resigned. So they cannot be impeached; neither can the Governess' husband, because he holds no office. The only persons left to impeach were the remaining Highway Commissioner and the Governess...
Lord Jim. Conrad's great novel of cowardice has been done into a pretty good motion picture. It should have been a great picture and the manufacturers have only themselves to blame. The usually expert Percy Marmont rather underscales the potentialities of the leading character. The rest is too often routine...
...commanding officer of the Sixth Corps Area, Major General William S. Graves, a member of the Court, "twisted his hands in nervous rage," and began to ask questions seeking to fix the blame...
...been staying with a lady and gentleman in Egypt. Helen will have nothing of such an alibi. She tells her neighbors that she is not repentant of "the bitter bridal bed where the fair mischief lay by Paris' side." It was inevitable. In fact Menelaus was to blame. Helen says: "I think a decent man could lose his wife without bringing...
...done my reading which I said I had. Well, that gave us something to use for conversation for a while. But as I wasn't exactly garrulous, he suggested unkindly that we plan for the next time. We did or rather he did. And honestly I don't blame them for praising Lincoln if any man could go as far as he did on about three books how far can I go on three hundred? If all that he gave me to read was bound in one volume it would look like the register of the national order...