Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clerk insolently asked me "What do you want, chow?" I was so ashamed that I'd preferred to die." Now those people are sensitive, they have a little pride. When they give, they give their shirt; when they take they apologize and soon repay. I don't blame the Red Cross for this, but those stupid, insulting clerks they hire to distribute the provisions. If they know you they give you beans, and bacon, if you are stranger they refuse you and let you starve. This is the first letter she has ever written me in more than...
...madness to antagonize America . . . especially the great Middle West of that country, which is already suspicious of Europe. Suspicious?can you blame them...
...accounting for the individual taste. At West Point we have many and varied customs, pleasant and unpleasant, but all handed down from former days, and constantly in the process of growth. We have found an answer that fits our purpose. The rest of the world may praise or blame as it sees fit. To us they are standards that we must follow to be worthy of the men before us. Some are for the good of the individual--though he often doubts it is plebe days and some we would not part with for gold...
Coming with a score of Cadillacs and a minimum of gestures the Republican standard bearer was met with a legally convictable crime against his name. The blame cannot fall upon the powerful local club that believes in prosperity. Rather does suspicion lie in other quarters. A student may, if he likes, believe in the "intentions" of Smith or the "Bolshevism" of Thomas, but such malefactions as this are hardly salve to the reputation of either aspirant...
...blame in what is clearly a case of divided inadvertencies has little point, particularly in this admittedly extraordinary instance. Undergraduates find little fault with the conduct of examinations at Harvard in such matters of principle as the question of the honor system. Certain of its mechanics, however, are rather less than satisfactory. There is something about the proctor who giggles over the examination paper just before the official moment of release, who never has the ink at hand, or who is unprepared for a request of second bluebooks during a three hour examination, that sicklies over with the pale cast...