Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House so many Congressmen rushed alibis into print that the galleries wondered if anybody had been present when the bill was up. Uprose Illinois' blonde, blue-eyed Jessie Sumner, to pin the blame on Georgia's patient Robert Ramspeck, the bill's sponsor. Miss Sumner had not known that the bill provided pensions for Congressmen; why hadn't Ramspeck said...
...Blame? Angry and shocked, the country scowled around for a scapegoat. The blistered decks were scarcely cool when New York's tabloid PM released the story of a gumshoe investigation, made weeks before the fire by Reporter Edmund Scott, a story which PM had suppressed at the time because it was "a blueprint for sabotage." Masquerading as a longshoreman, Scott had got a job with a crew hired to lug furniture ashore...
This week a court of inquiry under Rear Admiral Lamar R. Leahy, retired, sat down to try to fix the blame. Did the Lafayette's elaborate fire-detector system operate? What had happened to her fire-fighting equipment? Was a fire patrol on watch? Why allow men to operate acetylene torches so close to inflammable kapok...
...savagely ripped the staging from under Wilson's plans and let the whole structure of Versailles collapse like a house of cards. The trouble with 1920 was that the obsolete principles of Washington's Farewell Address still guided the thinking of our leaders. The universities are to blame for projecting these principles into the post...
Irwin Shaw's material is fresh, and he handles it with rich understanding and superb technique-up to a point. Then he lays it on too thick or too pat. Perhaps his professionalism is to blame. Perhaps the author of Bury The Dead is more naturally a playwright than a storyteller. Tricks of overemphasis, which get by on stage, look as uneasy in print as theatrical make-up does in a living room...