Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany and Italy are allowed to resort to open intervention, and the rout of international morality is made complete, Great Britain and her satellite France are to blame. No greater blow could have been dealt the Spanish Republic, and the front of constitutional democracies in general, than the non-intervention pact which raised the ideal smoke screen behind which Hitler and Mussolini could do their work...
...Carl Brisson, a large, broad-faced Dane who was once a pugilist, accomplishes both song and dance, has such fidgety legs that he seems to be dancing even when he is not supposed to. Brightest spots are the singing of such amiable Romberg tunes as "No Use Pretending" and "Blame It All on the Night" by Ruby Mercer, comely soprano from St. Louis' Municipal Opera Company, and eccentric dances by a small girl named June Havoc...
Superintendent Pritchett gladly shouldered the blame, said that he had ordered plugs but they had not arrived. As for the stamps, it was conceded that both men possessed them, had simply failed to paste them on their licenses. Of the most serious charge, baiting, the prosecuting attorney proclaimed "a shocking disregard for the law," demanded a conviction. Mr. Chrysler explained that he regularly scattered grain over his marshes except during hunting season, said 500 canvasbacks had boarded there last winter...
...case Germany is headed for that economic disaster which, by the wily stratagems of Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, the Fatherland has barely avoided so many times, it will be just as well for the blame to burst not upon Herr Hitler but upon Herr Göring, who has been a morphine addict, drinks Gargantuanly and is popular in a bluff, hearty fashion-the sort of man to whom Germans forgive mistakes. Minister-President Göring received last week the following send-off from Der Volkischer Beobachter, the personally-owned newsorgan of Chancellor Adolf Hitler to which all Nazi Party...
...Landonites could not blame Nature for all the things that went wrong. In few places were the Governor's parades properly arranged beforehand. In Chicago application for a parade permit was not made until too late to organize police supervision. In Detroit the Republican parade was so dawdling that the Nominee's car had to pull out of line and run ahead to the point where cheering crowds were waiting. At Detroit also his speaking stand was in centre field from which it took a full second or two for his voice to reach the grandstand, another second...