Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supply the details. Marjorie Mann plays her usual role of the One Bright Spot in the Program. There is a Hays ending, as might be expected, with Gable promising not to rook the good citizens of Yellow Crik, Nevada. Put this one down to experience though don't blame it on bad acting but bad casting and a hackneyed plot. Turner having a baby and pulling a Durbin act calls to mind sweaters, Artic Shaw, and one-month-marriages, thereby wrecking the general effect. There's also a second feature dealing with love in prolix form, a broken engagement...
...Government force the youngsters out of town. Said he: "Children are living in caves and getting as pale and miserable as possible. ... If a shell from German Channel guns falls into one of our schools and kills or injures any of the children, the parents themselves will be to blame...
Observing weather, true to the average of open nights, was half hazy with clouds and half clear, but as the graduate student of astronomy who was exhibiting the moon and the planet Jupiter through the big 15-inch 'scope, reminded his audience, it is unfair to blame 'the observatory staff for the pranks of the elements. However, no rain checks were given...
Different people have different hates about the movies. Some say the great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Some blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Hollywood, that the movie-going public...
WERE AS SATISFACTORY AS YOU INDICATE, WHY DID YOU PERSONALLY RELIEVE HIM CF COMMAND? . . . YOU ARE TRYING TO BLAME THE TACTICAL DEFEAT WHICH YOUR ARMY SUFFERED [IN THE LOUISIANA MANEUVERS] ON TRUMAN AND VARIOUS OTHER NATIONAL GUARD OFFICERS, WHICH IS EXCEEDINGLY UNFAIR. YOU SHOULD RETIRE YOURSELF RATHER THAN MAKE GENERAL TRUMAN THE GOAT...