Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other point the apologists of the Jacksons insisted upon: that the relations of the Jacksons were utterly free from moral blame. Jackson's political enemies stirred up a scandal many years ago about his marriage. Rachel Jackson had been first married to a man named Robards. He was cruel and they separated. Later, word came that he had secured a divorce through the legislature of Virginia. Thereupon Jackson married her. It developed a couple of years later that the divorce had never been granted. Robards had merely been granted the right to sue for divorce. He finally...
...year ago there were ten hansom cabs in London. Last week, there were 70. Taxi drivers growled that Americans were to blame because they think a hansom goes better with London than a taxi...
...their sympathizers were shot after warning when they attacked the Interrational Police Force at Shanghai. The Peking Foreign Office, while charging all the foreign Powers with responsibility for the shootings which began the trouble, reject the British contention. John A. Brailsford, correspondent of The New York World, laid the blame for the present disturbances at the door of all foreigners, including some missionaries...
...business adviser has long been recognized as an unhappy one. If business profits through good advice, it pats itself (not the adviser) on the back; in case the opposite occurs, the adviser gets all the blame...
...Dyke is correct in his assertion that there is too little thought in the American college of today, but the blame for that deficiency should be placed squarely on the shoulders of the undergraduate himself. There is time for thought, plenty of it, but the student dawdles and fritters away the precious hours in idleness, or pumps his head full of extra-curriculum affairs. Even Harvard, self-styled college of the thinker, is an intellectual trifler...