Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When airplanes crash, pilot error or faulty maintenance usually takes the blame for the spectacular carnage. In train wrecks, generally less lethal, the same factors apply. Last week...
...Whitechapel pub, the Northampton Arms, a tailor's cutter discussed The Crisis. No, he couldn't blame the Socialists. Then he reflected the typical defensive class-consciousness of many Laborites: "Still, I don't think they've had enough education to deal with the twisting coal owners...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...
...president wanted something else. One thing Meyer especially feared was that, if he did not have more control, loans would be granted not on their financial merits but on the basis of U.S. foreign trade policy. If such loans went sour, the president would be the handiest person to blame...
Those who desire Coop service, will have to do their own a little longer, according to G. E. Cole, manager. Said Cole yesterday: "We are taking the maximum. It reminds me of the sign in the barroom, 'Don't blame the piano-player, he's doing the best he can.' I'm hoping that by slow attrition things will get down to normal...