Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea of wreckage of the New Deal. It is not wreckage. It is a temporary halt. Speaking of NRA alone-after a rough voyage on an unknown, unchartered and foggy sea, during which it tacked and veered and took many wrong courses (for much of which I was to blame)-the fog suddenly lifted and disclosed a blank wall of a seemingly impassable cliff-the decision in the Schechter case. The problem now is not to pick up its wreckage but to steer a course around that barrier...
Prime fear of the British last week was that the superstitious natives would blame the whole thing on the British Raj, for the shaken area was entirely within the northern square of Baluchistan which Britain rules as a territory. And the ancient citadel of the Khan of Kalat, friend of the British, lay in ruins, as though for a judgment...
Middlesex County authorities promptly turned to Howard Lang. Bushy-browed Mr. Lang offered little light. His quarrel with Bowen Tufts dated back a dozen years to a personal feud arising out of a reorganization of Mr. Lang's real estate firm. He was questioned closely, absolved of all blame. Next Attorney General Paul A. Dever, a young, ambitious Irishman eight years out of law school, plunged into the case side by side with the Securities Division of the Massachusetts Public Utilities Commission. Slowly, day by day, they began unraveling the business affairs of Bowen Tufts, so complicated that...
Mothers of Drunkards may often be to blame for their sons' habits, Dr. James Hardin Wall of White Plains, N. Y. concluded after finding that a goodly number of drunks in his charge had been pampered, spoiled, overprotected in childhood. As adults "they loved to talk, were fond of singing and were inveterate users of tobacco, indicating rather strong oral cravings and demands for satisfaction." They enjoyed male drinking companions. They were only 18 years on the average when they started drinking, drank up to a quart a day. They had "a craving for the blissful state of infantile...
...Empress finally died Catherine and Peter were at open enmity. A successful coup d'état upped Catherine to the imperial throne. Her lover's brother murdered the miserable Peter-without her knowledge or consent, says Biographer Kaus. Rather than punish her lover, Catherine shouldered the blame for her husband's death...