Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...troops was solely due to his negligence and mismanagement. Sarrail's friends were quick to point out that the Catholics were actuated in their bitterness by purely sectarian motives; for they had nothing but praise for Marshal Lyautey in Morocco, although, so said these critics, he was far from blameless in causing the Moroccan...
...Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to Sinclair and Doheny (see OIL). It was presumed that the President withheld his, name awaiting the outcome of the oil investigations. Since then, the judge who decided the Doheny case decided that Admiral Robison was misguided, but entirely blameless. The judge who decided the Sinclair case did not even believe he had made a mistake in judgment. Nonetheless, the Board which recommends promotions did not again recommend him for promotion to the permanent rank of Admiral...
...same time, the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung declares that it, after looking into the details of the condemnation of the Leipziger Neuste Nachrichten* for unfair competition and after examining the judgment of the Supreme State Court in Dresden, regards the attitude of the publishers of the Vossische Zeitung as blameless. It regrets, therefore, the comments that it appended to the report of the publication of the excerpt of the judgment...
...song should strike a responsive chord within the undergraduate shivering by his sputtering lump of coal as well as within struggling householders and large manufacturers. But contrary to expectation the Commission puts the blame for high prices upon the wholesalers rather than upon the retailers. That the retailers are blameless should, however, be evident enough anyhow, for with the large number of retailers, each must deal fairly or lose his customers...
...have been suffering of late from national and personal extravagance, from which the present depression is only the inevitable reaction. Nor are our colleges in this respect blameless. Out aim should be to have our college life sound and wholesome without extravagance in athletics or fraternities or other aspects of the social life of the college...