Word: culprit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plainly the chief culprit. It upset playwrights, rattled producers, discouraged audiences. Not a single new show produced after Pearl Harbor was a hit. But (and for this the war wasn't entirely to blame) not a single new show deserved to be a hit. Comedies, farces, fantasies—the theater of entertainment and escape—showed as little merit as the theater of ideas. Big names—John Steinbeck, Maxwell Anderson, George Kaufman, Clifford Odets, Ben Hecht, Marc Connelly, Paul Vincent Carroll, Emlyn Williams—revealed all the ineptitude of nonentities. During the entire season, not one U.S. playwright produced a good original...
...upon the House on Wednesday, caused Roy L. Westcott, Director of the University Dining Hall, to announce that here after all dining halls will keep their silverware under look and key. Tightlipped, spoonless authorities would not reveal the nature of the punishment which will be meted out to the culprit, if apprehended...
Proof of Harvard's alertness in matters of defense was afforded Saturday by the apprehension of a suspicious-looking character in the act of taking a picture of Widener with a foreign camera. Accused of being a Nazi agent, the culprit was taken into custody by the Yard Cops...
Ambassador Litvinoff put the situation very neatly. And in making it plain that Russia would not open up an Eastern Front, he also gave a good reason: "Hitler is the chief culprit in all the present wars, the inspirer of the whole gang, and the destruction of Hitler would mean the end of them all." The U.S. and Britain, now fighting the whole gang, understood and agreed...
Scotland Yard optimistically reported a 1% decrease in general crime over last year. But, as in the U.S. mass evasion of the unpopular Volstead Act, official figures were unreliable. Police have access only to cases where a complaint has been registered, a culprit booked. The chief evidence of character-loosening was conversation: Topic No. 1 (the war) had been pushed into the background by Topic No. 2 (how to beat the rationing restrictions...