Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense attorney ... is trying also to paint the dead man as some kind of a sadist or other fiend-although he wasn't sadist enough to put four bullets in his lover. . . . The fault lies partly with the newspapers and partly with the lawyers. Both are to blame...
...Blame? Unemployment today is, as commentators on the President's relief message hastened to point out, concentrated in the heavy industries, steel, building construction, etc. The failure of heavy industries to recover lost ground and thereby re-employ more men is blamed, in part at least, on the New Deal and its repressive policies toward Business. Administration critics last week were quick to contrast the President's exhortation to industry to absorb more unemployment with his latest tax message in which he recommended a penal levy on corporate surpluses...
Half-sympathetic toward the Spanish peasant's belief that Jesuits and Rightist politicians are to blame for peasant poverty, squat, sack-faced Republican Premier Manuel Azaña last week moved to end the violence. He called in Socialist Leader Francisco Largo Caballero, roared at him to call off his mobs, was met with evasions. He issued a decree re-seizing for distribution to the peasants lands which Spain's Left Government had seized in 1932 and which its Right Government had returned to the grandees...
...boldest front-page headlines the tradesheet Variety last week chronicled the dearth of Broadway musical shows, fixed the blame on the Hollywood songwriting mills' which offer big pay and security to the tunesters who got their start in Manhattan's Tin Pan Alley. When Jiibilee and At Home Abroad closed fortnight ago, only four musicomedies remained on Broadway, the mid-season low since the beginning of the War. Simultaneously. Variety's radio log showed that the tune most played on the air was I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket, one of Irving Berlin...
Some critics left the premiere growling that Clyde (played by Alexander Kirkland) was a cad, that no matter how far back one probed to fix the blame for his fate, there was no excuse for indicting Society. Meanwhile, the theatre was resounding with jubilant whistles and applause not only from radical Group Theatre sympathizers but from many a nonpartisan theatregoer who had just been given a mighty exhibition of theatrical illusion...