Word: guiltlessness
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...humor of it, like the plot, is sunny and to-the-point. The quality which makes "Sailor, Beware" a charming evening is its complete simplicity; it doesn't seem possible than anyone could write such guiltless stuff with wheat selling at $1.06 and O'Neill's "Days Without End" on the boards. The hostesses in The Idle Hour Cafe talk with point and guste; they know that life is life. The heroine knows it too, but she has the old hourgeois respectability on her mind, and keeps pretty stiff-backed. Young "Dynamite," the aggressor, tries all manner of persuasions, from...
Next morning, in all but the ultra-conservative press, the defeated conspiracy was bitterly assailed as "un-British trickery" and, even more scathingly, as "not cricket." Despite his fervent protests of innocence, editors refused to believe Mr. Lloyd George entirely guiltless. Commented the Labor Daily Herald...
Merchant Rappaport proved to be a glib gentleman who denied any knowledge of a counterfeiting scheme to loot Monte Carlo. Though he carried genuine casino chips in his pocket, he swore he was the guiltless tool of an unnamed citizen...
Clearly, since neither of Otto Schultzenstein's wives had sought to invalidate either marriage, the German court could do only what it did, namely dismiss Otto Schultzenstein as a guiltless and triumphant bigamist...
...doing as he did any German may, it would appear, also become a guiltless bigamist. Vexed, Lutheran and Catholic clergymen thundered from their pulpits...