Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Joan is old enough to marry; then Laura Shadwell tells her that she is a foundling. In a rage. John Shadwell asks Laura to divorce him, scuttles off to Vergie's house. Laura follows him with a revolver, shoots him dead, runs away. Vergie Winters takes the blame. Laura confesses on her death bed. Vergie gets a pardon...
...wiry Comrade Jacques Suritz. In Afghanistan they remember Jacques Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty flying for his life (TIME. June 3, 1929). Successful Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet...
...result; 21 were arrested; the crowd was broken up, as were also the scalps of several Harvard undergraduates; and, where previously the various groups had been just waiting to lay the blame for the impending disturbance on each other, now all, including the spectators, joined in condemning the police who would not let them district...
...grisly organ music of her funeral fills her mansion. Lorinda Channing (Gale Sondergaard) feigns death with the aid of a struggling physician (Walter Abel) to trap a relative who has been trying to poison her. Returning from the tomb, she personally executes her would-be assassin, neatly shifts the blame to another. Between waves of goose-pimples, audiences have spells of apprehension lest good old Walter Abel get himself hanged for a deed...
Scandals are usually attributable to lack of moral fiber but something rather inexplicable has happened in Adams House. Blame seems to fall on the Dining Hall which for so long brightened the faces of the W.C.T.U. with its refusals to serve beer. It has apparently not only completely reversed its stand now but has become an ardent wet supporter...