Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current ran uphill to large headlines proclaiming a quick return to Prosperity. The other ran down- hill to accounts of breadlines and jobless distress. Behind headlines for prosperity was sound Republican politics to minimize and gloss over unemployment. Behind breadlines for the jobless was equally sound Democratic politics to blame the party in power for a serious labor slump...
This situation is only a week old. El Excelsior has hitherto joined with other Mexican dailies in playing up crime at its goriest. But thoughtful Mexicans have been saying that the press may be to blame for such Mexican wrongdoing. El Excelsior last week voluntarily took this view, announced it would suppress all news of crime. Good Mexicans thought this action well befitted the daily whose circulation (61.500) and influence are the largest in the land. Well pleased was Editor Manuel L. Barragan to be able to reprint a feather for Excelsior's sombrero, a letter from President Ortiz...
...coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon the actors. During most of the three hours, the drama flowed forward quickly; here, the little complications of plot caused greater haste, there the "merry war of words" between Benedick...
...Astrologers are professionally joyous over the New Planet's discovery. They blame all their fortune mistellings on its obscurity, now talk of greater accuracy...
This is the background of a very ordinary melodrama in which one racketeer shoots another and the blame is almost fixed on a thug who wants to get married and reform. There is a conventionally kind-hearted police officer; a mother (the arcade proprietress) who will do anything to save her wayward son; and a harsh, wisecracking ingenue of the half-world. Deprived of Cleon Throckmorton's literal setting (arcade equipment supplied by B. Madorsky of Brooklyn), the play would provide nothing of unusual interest...