Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress." In the letter he took credit for the fact that there were then eight 10,000-ton cruisers under construction, and pointed out that as a result of the failure of the Geneva conference a $740,000,000 ship- building program was before Congress. Mr. Wakeman took the blame for Bethlehem's having hired Mr. Shearer, admitted it was a "damn fool decision...
...blame for the maladjustments that occur only too often in the case of students in any college of today has been laid on many and varied doorsteps. The colleges themselves have been criticized, both for not being liberal enough to the earnest scholar and at the same time not strict enough with the slacker. President Lowell last year arraigned the preparatory schools for sending their graduates on to the higher institutions improperly trained. Athletics, extra-curriculum, activities and social diversions have all come in for their share of the responsibility. In an article in the current Atlantic Monthly quoted elsewhere...
...knowledge of one another and of books: if they are more in the company of girls, more addicted to dancing and visiting, thanks are largely due to the automobile. And if they run more risks than in the days of the horse there is the same cause to blame. Cars are made to go faster and faster, many of them are sold on the basis of their speed:--this one "can touch 73 without pushing," that one "can do 50 in second." The manufacturers are not guilty; they must follow the trend of competition. The human nature that makes undergraduates...
...week ephemeral charges were made by Arab and Jewish organizations in Palestine and throughout the world, each race trying to put major blame on the other. But the colonial office ignored all such manifestations, prepared to finish the mopping up as a matter of police methods and British justice. Said Baron Pasfield...
...reels of almost continuous kissing, Olive Borden is faced with a moment when the bad fellow who has been trying to get her away from her husband chases her up to the roof, makes a pass at her, falls over the edge, is killed. She wants to take the blame, and her husband wants to take the blame. The worst of it is that she has to explain to her father, who is a billionaire, that she is married. She had kept this a secret all the time and lived in her own house. Only the occasional entry of Vaudevillain...