Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...salary-cropped Senators thought so, they did not say so. There of course had to be some goat to blame for this sizable deficit. Prime Minister Mussolini found a handy one in the U. S. The Wall Street crash of 1929, blamed for so much, was apparently responsible for Fascismo's troubles as well. Said...
...very long. It is a flippant and debonair little piece, written to order by Frederick Lonsdale. It exists for its manner, its atmosphere of "nice" people, its flashes of wit-Colman buying a wirehaired fox terrier; arguing with his father, the irascible Lord Leeland (Father: "Now you're blaming me for bringing you into the world." Son: "I should be mortified for your sake if I had to blame anyone else.") ; taking Loretta Young on a merry-go-round; accepting the ?5,000 his fiancee hands him in the nasty belief that he loved her for her money. Colman...
Samisen men do not blame the introduction of the saxophone, Radio or the changing morals of the younger generation. As good Buddhists, they lay their troubles to the souls of the thousands of dead cats and dogs which have been slaughtered to make samisen strings, samisen drumheads. To appease these departed spirits, the bronze monument was samisentimentally erected...
...Association of Life Insurance Presidents, meeting in Manhattan. Cause of Unemployment, he recited, is overproduction, inevitable result of the War. Although Science, the builder of machinery, has often been held responsible for taking men's jobs from them, Dr. Millikan refused to let Science take the blame. He argued that Science has created more new work, more new demands than it has destroyed. Let industrialists study Unemployment as scientifically as they do their factory equipment, urged Scientist Millikan. He warned the insurance presidents to inaugurate a plan of industrial insurance before the Government does...
...cells. Were they really going to die? Occidental observers have been suspicious from the first that the trial was supreme propaganda, rehearsed in advance by prosecutor and prisoners, broadcast throughout Russia to convince peasants and proletarians that if the Soviet Government seems to get poor results at times the blame should be placed on "foreign plotters.'' A public shooting of all those condemned to death, an execution witnessed by all the occidental correspondents in Moscow would have done much to convince doubters that the trial was no fake...