Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bond Hill School with excited tales that their friends who whispered during a fourth grade play rehearsal had had their mouths taped shut by Teacher Norma Allen. When parents protested, the school's Acting Principal Marie Dachenbach declared that the whisperers had penitently affixed the tape themselves, at blameless Teacher Allen's suggestion...
...notes, bolted like a rabbit for France until things should quiet down. A few weeks ago brazen Juan March was offering publicly to highest bidders the Governorship of a Spanish province and all its seats in the Cortes, which he claimed to control. Last week Dastard March and the blameless Duquesa de Fernán Núñez were about equally scared. The Duchess stripped off her great rope of pearls, left it with Spanish frontier guards "for safe keeping," because otherwise they obstinately refused to permit Her Grace to flee to France...
Ever since Victoria's blameless Consort Albert introduced the knee-length frock coat or "Prince Albert," it has been required wearing at Buckingham Palace for officials in "close attendance" on the Sovereign. This week King Edward ordered worn instead the morning coat...
...intuition Adolf Hitler had quietly effaced himself while the more hard-boiled and intractable of his subordinates eased their pent-up inhibitions last week. After they are uninhibited, the Realmleader always finds them as a group much easier to lead, punishes ruthlessly a few who went too far, emerges blameless in many eyes because, during the excesses, he was absent...
...aisles. St. Louis expects much this year of Producer Laurence Schwab. Boston-born Harvardman whose Broadway record shines. Producer Schwab will follow the established "Muny" pattern, change operas every Monday during the twelve-week season.* Teresina was a sterile, tuneless start last week but the direction at least was blameless. While Schwab's pretty wife amazed St. Louis by playing golf in scanty shorts and a sunback bandanna, her husband rehearsed tirelessly for 14 hours a day. Producer Schwab's costume: baggy slacks, sweat shirt, worn felt hat. His results: a smooth performance, with no muffed lines...