Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uniform enforcement of the closing time, with adequate warning, would assure fairer treatment all around. Of course it is obvious that better cooperation from certain parts of the undergraduate body in stopping on time will have to be forthcoming, for the enforcement authorities have not been completely to blame in this. But in general dealings with the students it is not too much to ask that the proctors bear in mind the old Wykhamite motto: "Manners maketh...
Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee seized the opportunity to blame on wealthy tax-dodgers the whole $400,000,000 shortage in revenues from the estimate in the President's last Budget message. But that would have taken 8,000 millionaires wiggling out of $50,000 in taxes each, and the Doughton theory soon perished...
...Atlas doubly reinforced with new troops. Theo dore Steeg had the uncomfortable knowledge as he approached Morocco that if miraculous rain came, or if he could some how halt the advancing Blue Men. he would be a hero to the nation. Otherwise he might have to shoulder the blame for a great and bloody massacre...
...make the statement without rancor, that he worst enemy of the Theatre today is the people of the Theatre. Perhaps the producers are most to blame - the majority of them amateur or near-society dilettantes, night-club habitues, angel-backers and shoestring gamblers, (ith their slipshod, unmoral and, even worse, unprepared productions, messing up Broadway...
...swallow the bitter pill of lost the control of the Mediterranean Sea, Hitler talk too often of the return of the German colonies, so John Bull do his best to discredit these two countries, so in case she prepare a war against them, she will have an alibi and blame Hitler and Mussolini to have provoked...