Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lloyd-George has any thoughts of extending his political career into the future, no one can blame him. The British public might be amused or scandalized, either of which would be undesirable. Moreover, the former premier is faced with a serious problem in practical ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists...
...same title promised to be mature and interesting entertainment. It held out the promise as long as the curtain of the first act. Thereafter it slid bewilderingly away into patches of sincerity and larger patches of absurdity. Probably an unusual overabundance of inefficient acting was chiefly to blame. Certainly it was too good a play to deserve the snickers of the witnesses at critical moments...
...rubbernecking," what travel agency can defend itself against the not overwhelming percentage of humanity which you have in mind? The necks of travelers "rubber" and otherwise, are as their Creator made them. Why place the blame lower? Why set it on the shoulders of a single travel company...
...model of the great ship hung suspended by wires over the heads of the inquiry officers, while the survivors filed in, were sworn, told their stories and were examined. The stories were fragmentary and mostly technical, no exact cause of or blame for the disaster being readily deducible from them. It might have been concluded that the ship was wrecked entirely because of the ferocity of the storm, that some of her girders were weak, that some of her safety valves were not working and that one or more of her gas cells burst, or that the temporary failure...
...October Mr. Frank Bohn iconoclastically scouts the logic of this attitude. If professors, by leaving the academic fold, he argues, can compete successfully in business and command salaries many times greater than those they received for teaching, there must indeed be something radically wrong in college administration. The blame for this situation the writer lays on the heads of the university presidents and boards of trustees who are "afflicted by our American craze for mere size." He relates statistics of the enormous gifts in the last ten years to institutions of higher learning and suggests that instead of using these...