Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blame the draft if you want to. Say that Hollywood is a bad influence; that playwrights are still thinking in terms of the '30's; that the public prefers to be amused these days anyway. There are lots of pet theories, but none of them quite covers "Candle In The Wind," "Eve Of St. Mark," "Letters To Lucerne," "Plan M"; none of them can explain away "Heart Of The City," "The Moon Is Down," "The Morning Star," "The Wookey,"--et cetera, ad infinitum, strictement pour les oiseaux...
...could I blame Harvard men for failing to wear hats when I was so annoyed with my own. It wasn't the students' fault, but the architects', for failing to provide facilities to dispose of headgear during lectures and classes...
BOSTON--All entertainment was banned from Boston night sports as investigators sought tonight to place the blame for the Cocoanut Grove holocaust and to prevent a recurrence of the disaster that claimed at least 460 lives...
...hasn't Mildred recorded of late? Blame it on her integrity. She'd signed a contract with Decca largely on the strength of her two best-selling Gems of Jazz reissues, made years before for English Parlophone. She'd sung four perennial jazz numbers: "Willow Tree," "Honey-suckle Rose," "Squeeze Me," and "Downhearted Blues." Only Decca now wanted her to sing the latest. Mildred as usual wanted to make her own choices. In an up-and-coming singer it might be foolishness, but in an artist who has been on top for over ten years, who has developed...
...blame must be placed squarely on the conductors of the drive itself. Not to the higher-ups who planned and organized it down to the last detail, but to the rank and file worker must this shortage be attributed. A small group, who volunteered for the task, are by their negligence impairing a large part of the University's war effort...