Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house on Commonwealth Avenue for an afternoon's excitement at the Fine Arts Theatre, to her companion. "Why, it is a bed, and they're in it! These foreigners. I always said to my husband, when we saw those men on the streets of Paris . . ." Nor, perhaps, can one blame the old lady, for the complicated framework of "Wien, du Stadt der Lieder" is such that she could hardly be expected to follow the intricate love problems of Steffi, a Viennese shopgirl, who is almost cast into the willing arms of the almost rich tenor butcher only to be rescued...
...soldier, sets out one night to have a good time. Propelled by laws of coincidence peculiar to stories like this one, he goes to the very cabaret where Irene Dunne, now a dignified harridan, is acting as mistress of ceremonies. She is able to take the blame when he murders the father of a girl he is trying to seduce. Most inevitable shot: the son (Douglas Walton) denouncing his grandfather in court, where the truth comes...
Against the general tendency to blame the economic system for the depression, this pamphlet blames rather the inertia and obstructionism of a Senate giving way to childish outbursts of petulance, and a House of Representatives frittering away its time on picayune economies. One may find this analysis of the situation too narrow, too concentrated on the international and monetary aspects of the depression; one may disagree with the conservative capitalistic solution offered, but at least the analysis is supported by a multitude of statistics, and the solution gives the sanction of banking circles to practical measures long advocated by economists...
...CRIMSON of February 1 there appeared a letter laying the blame for the decrease in interest in the Classics at the door of the department on the ground that too much attention is paid to the mechanical work of grammar and translation. The author closed with the statement that if the Classics are to regain their old popularity they must be studies "as the modern languages...
...Hilton locked out over the floor crowded with the flower of Boston's womanhood. "Well," he reflected, "as I often say to my wife, I can't blame the boys for cutting up a bit at these debutante parties, there isn't much temptation for them to dance...