Word: blame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been able to prove that the bedbug is the transmitting agent. It is believed by many that some species of biting and bloodsucking insect is guilty, and further work on the suspects is projected. But it is not inevitable that insects transmit it direct; possibly contaminated food is to blame...
...blame me if my children visit me here? Do you blame the Crown Prince for wanting to leave his lonely island to seek distraction in Doom...
Lord Curzon, 39 years of age, says the reason he appears to be a speed maniac is because when other people are caught their chauffeurs get the blame; he drives his own car. He is also captain of the House of Commons Cricket Team...
...blame is to be laid for the drop in oil prices, some of it should go to the Governors of South Dakota and Nebraska, but most of it to the ordinary citizens in the Los Angeles Valley, who last Spring discovered oil literally in their back yards and under their front lawns...
...Ministry of Fine Arts and a group of connoisseurs. Roman gate ways, ancient mantelpieces, church sculpture from provincial towns have been avidly bought up by Americans, but will probably not be allowed to leave the country. Some French critics, however, say that France has only herself to blame for her low estimate of precious Corots, Daumiers, Cezannes, and for her poor care of her art treasures. In America, they admit, these objects are at least protected against vandalism in museums...