Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...throng there was an observed exception. General Dawes . . . maintained intact his trousers. No doubt this addiction to trousers is a personal foible. Shall any then blame General Dawes? . . Of course not. . . . Let us more properly pay a tribute to the personal courage which consorts so well with his military rank, for it needs valor to become voluntarily the target of every glance...
...Senate is made up of a number of men . . . but there are about a dozen who call themselves Republicans who owe no real allegiance to our party. . . . We have seen the results in the agriculture bill*. . . . What is to be done? We can't blame the President. ... If he had nine lives, he might devote five of them to these men but he would not gain their votes...
...dead," croaked a Japanese delegate, "it is certainly dying with despatch." Most observers concurred, but not indomitable Owen D. Young, chairman of the committee and co-representative of the U. S. with Mr. Morgan, who conferred as often as thrice a day with the "Iron Man" whom most people blame for disrupting the committee, Germany's hard, ungracious Dr. Hjalmar Schacht...
...hardly blame the President and Fellows of Harvard College for keeping their little secret about Memorial Hall as long as they did. In fact one can't help liking them for this exhibition of propriety even though the dean's office must have been a little astonished to find a little while ago that Memorial would not be available for holding the divisional examinations next week. Good old New England reserve and modesty which objects to boasting about the most hospitable acts is not to be blamed for reticence in a case like this. Generosity loses half its fine flavor...
...Commandments, and with as little expectation of being challenged. Lord Balfour laid down the astute principle that Great Britain will not exact a penny more from her European debtors than is exacted from her by the U. S. These unctuous words have enabled Honest John Bull to pass the blame for collecting War debts on to Uncle Shylock Sam. Without the Balfour Note, both France and Italy to-day might well be on hostile instead of friendly terms with Britain. Therefore, almost everyone in the House of Commons was flabbergasted when Spleenful Snowden cried...