Word: blaming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Dooley again came in for a good share of the blame. His choice of plays was considered poor, his passing worse. But with memories of the 1924 game still rankling. Harvard will not make the mistake of rating Dooley lightly...
...auto, that emblem of our mechanical age, comes in now and again for its due share of blame for almost any heinous insult to morals that passing fancy chooses to decry. And now its potentialities for destroying the fruitful years of the flower of American culture--the college man--are again pointed out. Dean of Men, Goodnight, of the University of Wisconsin has recently made a passionate plea to fathers against this vile filcher of the young man's time and money. He is evidently of the impression that the paths of autos lead but to the roadhouse where w.ne...
...would be back at work today. The Chancellor of the Exchequer should have been given a free rein to enforce his peace proposals upon the owners." Premier Baldwin replied: "We cannot force an agreement by legislation." Significantly the Premier went on to load the Miners' Federation with the blame for continuing the coal strike. Thus, he repudiated by implication Mr. Churchill's stand. Statistics released last week indicated that British coal production is now at one-tenth of normal, and iron and steel production at one-fourteenth of normal...
...tactful, fluttering geisha- and her lusty sister the joro have given rise at last to a political issue between the Kenseikai (Conservative Party) of Premier Wakatsuki and his erst- while† supporters, the Seiyuhonto (True Friends Party). The pub- licists of these embattled partisans, in their effort to cast blame for the Yoshiwara of Tokyo upon their opponents, have stirred the Japan- ese press to investigate the seat of responsibility for such resorts of incontinence throughout the Empire. Despatches reported last week that so many statesmen of both the Government Party and the opposition have been found to hold...
...oracle continues: I like inanity, I like the innocuous. So Prohibition and personality hold the stage. One man will vote for John P. O'Doe because "he's really a good scout, has made a little money and wants the wife's picture in the papers. You can't blame him." Another votes for Peter P. Pringle, Esq., because "he has his little nip with the boys now and then; a man who will get us drinks if he can Good old Pete!" A third may rationalize a trifle. "I can't vote for Oscar T. Newton center...