Word: blame
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...melodramystical vehicles. Nothing that happens in "To Have and Have Not" is much of a surprise, but the movie as certainly--and perhaps deservedly--destined for a fantastically gigantic audience. Few will be the moviegoers who will be able to resist both Bacall and Bogart; dramaturgy is hardly to blame...
...Dean might be interested to know that no one has yet taken his newly won laurels seriously enough to fraternize in Sherman Hall in the manager he suggested; but if anyone does, we shall be glad to report the results and place the blame...
Primitive farming practices, lack of tools and transportation were partly to blame. But the chief reason was the system of land tenure. In most of the countries, the bulk of the land was in large estates. The owners, generally absentees, paid little attention to the food needs of their peons, or of the nation as a whole. Much good land lay idle, held for speculation. Land taxes were nonexistent, or too low to force the owners to cultivate their acres efficiently...
They have no feeling yet that the war is lost. But they sense uneasily that Pearl Harbor was a mistake. For that they blame the Germans, whom they have come to hate. A popular Tokyo joke tells how a Jap slapped a Bulgarian military attache. When he was informed that his victim was an "honorably ally," the Jap apologized: "So sorry, I thought he was a German." But this feeling against Germans is part of a greater hostility toward all whites. (There are still a few thousand white neutrals in Japan...
...closing may we say you cannot blame our starting in journalism on Alhambra High School's famous "Moor"--the old man cut tombstone inscriptions, hence the "natural cause of things...