Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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According to the latest reports New England has so far subscribed not much more than sixty per cent of her estimated contribution to the national loan. Of course in such matters it is small use to blame anybody, since the only people who mind are those who have done their share. Those that haven't won't, not for the words of editors, nor for the words of bankers, nor for the words of a Cicero in the mouth of a Demosthenes inspired by a Delphic oracle and addressed to the salvation of his country...
...Germany loses, and is humbled to the bitter defeat which is visited on the overpresumptuous, no doubt then she will grow repentant, as, it is recorded, the devil grew repentant when taken ill. She will then blame her rulers and her generals, openly because they led her after barren conquest, secretly because they failed...
...should not blame Russia for an indifference to that war upon which she was the first to enter. She is going the road of political freedom in a few months, which other peoples have only passed after long centuries of struggle. It could not be otherwise than that immediate liberty should swallow up the desire for a more remote national liberty...
...Joan the Woman," there is a great deal that could be said about it, but any comment, whether of praise or blame, can with difficulty be expressed moderately. We might begin by saying that we have but little sympathy with the fastidious critics who find Mme. Farrar's conception of Joan of Arc a little too robust. Their own preconceptions of the character are, it is to be feared, a little too intense. "That wonderful child," as Mark Twain calls her in one of his finest stories, was not the anaemic heroine she is pictured in Bastian Lepage's sickly...
...this production. Mr. Cecil Lean, to whom is intrusted the lead, is a very good funny man, but his "line" is not one of the newest, and suffering as he is from a cold, his personality does not impress one as especially magnetic. Boston weather may be handed the blame for this man's indisposition, and his cheerfulness and willingness to try almost made up for his Ark wit. Playing opposite him was Miss Hazel Cox, who seemed a trifle gross both in physique and manner...