Word: blameless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couple of important characters who keep popping up during the play for the apparent purpose of showing that their lives have been ruined by Tom and Emily Chanler. Actually, the seeds of dissipation and destruction are within themselves, and the Chanlers, despite the accusations and confessions, are blameless...
...Durocher, suspended from baseball for the second time Friday by Commissioner Albert B. Chandler after an incident at the Polo Grounds was hear toned by the support of many fans who said they witnessed the affair and declared Durocher was blameless. One fan even said he "accidentally kicked and tripped over" Fred Boyson. Boyson, a 22-year old Brooklyn fan, charged that Durocher hit him from behind, knocked him to the ground and scuffed him, after the Giant's 15 to 2 loss to the Dodgers Thursday...
...father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...
When it was all over, agency men could only weakly mumble that Gimbels is not completely blameless either. Latest sample of Gimbels' "overexcited, overeager, overhappy" copy: "Nothing but sweet-as-Pètit-Suisse dreams could come of time spent in a gown and jacket like this. Princess Pat's rayon sheer gown is diaphanous as wisps of clouds floating over a pale June moon...
What makes a man an alcoholic? Alcoholism, answer psychiatrists, is a symptom of mental disease, and thus chronic drinking in many cases may be as unavoidable and blameless as catching a cold. But last week a Pennsylvania court, in a case involving alcoholism, contradicted the psychiatrists' view, argued that a man can avoid becoming an alcoholic if he wants...