Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maurice Viollette, Marc Sagnier and Marius Moutet. Last June M. Maurras was sentenced together with three members of the Camelots du Roi (King's Hawkers-a Royalist organization) to four months' imprisonment. Although he was not implicated in the original charge he came forward and took the blame for the assaults. In the Appeal trial he again assumed the fullest responsibility for everything that had happened, and told the Court that it "ought really to pass a vote of thanks and congratulations." Instead, the judge doubled M. Maurras' sentence. The Camelots du Roi assembled outside the Court...
...this is distinctly conservative, and as such may be open to praise or blame. But as conservatism it at least merits praise for being conservative. Less can be said for its more constructive "planks", urging: a course on the Bible treated as literature, a course in dramatic art open to the university, and one or two more fraternity houses. These suggestions, it may be pardonable to observe, are scarcely new to the Harvard mind, which will immediately call up the existence, for better or worse, of English 35, English 47, and the recent amalgamation of the Hasty Pudding...
...their friends to join them. Since that date it has been the fashion for prominent Englishmen to come, at least once in a lifetime, to pass judgment on America. England has never been able to forget that America is "new". As this is actually the case, one can hardly blame her for reflecting, like the Stoics, that youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges us with moral callousness in our attitude towards prohibition, and what not no one is surprised. When, relenting somewhat, he hastens to add that Americans "are just...
...scandal" is nothing less than a God-send for the Democratic party and for Hiram Johnson, both of whom have lost no time in spreading so black a smoke-screen over the whole proceeding that little can be discerned of the true nature of the transactions. Very probably what blame exists can be attached to the Republican party, although it appears that Mr. Josephus Daniels and others had a finger in the "Teapot" at one time; perhaps some of the blame can even be hung on President Coolidge, on the theory that the chief is responsible...
...Lullaby. Husband commits murder and is himself killed in the act. Faithful wife takes part blame and is parked in state's prison. Baby daughter is adopted by State Governor and brought up respectable. Years pass. Mother comes out. Mother seeks baby daughter. Baby daughter is having coming out party at very gubernatorial mansion. Mother gets by the butlers. Governor persuades mother: "She must not know." Mother agrees and goes out on lawn to commit suicide. Daughter and fiance bring her around. Fiancé marries daughter anyway...