Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...showing made by the collectors for the Gymnasium Fund from the class of 1914 was better today, but the class is still at the bottom of the list. There is no reason in the world for this, and, although the collectors are somewhat to blame, the members of the class have not shown the right spirit. This explains to a great measure our poor showing. 1914 GYMNASIUM COMMITTEE...
...Browning and Mackaye, "their spirit-prayers pulso upward, and in the years two before two other of their eyes watched in sturdy appreciation the prying crocus crimson through the lawn." Even after allowing for the worst that the printer can have done to the English, one must blame the critic's botany. Mr. Mackaye, we are told, "is too sane and healthy to retch the infinite." Alas! A. W. W. is not. "In the end, however, I should say of this poet: his are the bowels of pity, where is the belly of fire? And this would be my ultimate...
...better and no worse, he understands them. The scene is laid in a large American city, and the conflict is between the Boss who justifies himself to himself, and his neice who sees clearly the destruction that his altruistic intentions--altruistic though they are avaricious -- precipitate. But from blaming the Boss, she comes to understand that not he but the people of whom he is a crystallization, a projected image, are to blame...
...clubs were used by the police in the Lawrence trouble and naturally this only intensified the feeling. The labor leaders tell their men that the troops, sent to protect "life, liberty and property," are protecting property alone; and the men, used to a centralized police in their native lands, blame the United States government for their condition and cherish bitter hatred toward...
Upon very careful investigation it was found that one man was, to a large extent, to blame for writing to Andover and, wholly without authority from the Athletic Association, scheduling a basketball game with that school. Also owing partly to several interruptions by someone other than the referee, and partly to the fact that Andover was playing under rules with which their opponents were unfamiliar, several disputes arose in the game which caused what may mildly be called "cheap talk" on the part of the Harvard men. The game ended with anything but the mutual feeling which should characterize...