Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Few countries envy our moral reputation. Granted it is unjust but who is to blame? Out here the cinema is the popular entertainment for the evening. Most of them show American pictures. Pictures that we Americans see and soon forget. Pictures from which our foreign friends form their conception of the average American life. The ordinary picture fan out here sees our fair America-not once, but some fifty or sixty times each year-as a place where every seventh door is a speakeasy, where racketeers and gangsters clean the streets of all humanity every day, where all stock...
Editor Harry McGuire, writing in the current issue of Outdoor Life, places most of the blame for the new law on sheepmen, charges them with attempting "to get free grazing land." He concludes: "The more I see sheepmen, the better I like bears...
...disgruntled Prussian militarists of the Ludendorff school blame Germany's loss of the War on Christianity. They have started a cult of Wodan, the Teuton's remorseless God of War. Last week a sermon on Wodan was preached by General Erich von Ludendorff himself to a group of Wodanists assembled in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein...
...through the throes of Renaissance revivals in architecture America was still building huts along decidedly medieval lines. With a few possible exceptions it is not until the twentieth century that we begin to take the lead, but after all, with a handicap of several hundred years, are we to blame? In the earlier days the crudest substitutes had to serve for what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which distinguishes the greater part of the early work...
...Associated Press was absolved from blame by the court of inquiry yet was glad to publish an explanation...