Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Opera in this city has suffered a severe decline while its prestige as an artistic form has risen all over the nation. And when the Met, which is not entirely blameless, takes its company on the Boston tour, it calls forth last dollars of Back Bay operagoers...
...Blameless Labor. Among the more recent publications of the Smithsonian are reports on the catfish of Venezuela and the songs of the Chitimacha Indians of Louisiana. Every detail of nature, Smithsonian men insist, is worth attention for itself alone...
Some outside scientists, planning for the atomic age, smile at the old Smithsonian. But others are slightly envious. Smithsonian researchers do not have to teach. Their work, though it often proves useful, need have no practical applications. And out of their blameless labors will come no demons, no man-made plagues, no bombs or poisons for the world to exorcise...
...movie, Kitty is almost as blameless as Cotton Mather's third wife. But she makes out well in spite of her virtues, marrying the gouty old Duke of Malmunster and finally, after his death, falling into the arms of Sir Hugh Marcy (Ray Milland...
Alois Hitler, Adolf's halfbrother, was released from custody by the British, who had queried him for six weeks and now pronounced him harmless. "It is clear to us," ran a dry but lightly carbonated statement by the British military government, "that he has led a perfectly blameless existence, being absolutely scared stiff of being associated in any way with the Führer's activities...