Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast than in his new role. To Birkenhead's cold, precise, savage legal mind Indian statesmen with their loose, mystic reasoning from aspiration and intuition were mere weaklings, chuckleheads, loons. By his arrogance to the meekest people on earth he sowed resentment wide and deep, possibly is most to blame for the present fierce sprouting of St. Gandhi's movement in more virulent form than ever before. (The Earl himself blamed James Ramsay MacDonald's "wishy-washy milk-and-mushiness!") He resigned as Secretary of State for India some months before the Baldwin Cabinet's overthrow (TIME...
...agricultural exporting countries of Europe is absolutely tragic!" said Rumanian Minister of Commerce Virgil Madgearu. He pictured Rumanian farmers as "crushed" by the stupendous volumes of foodstuffs offered in World markets by North and South America plus Russia. Referring to Russian "dumping" (see p. 17), M. Madgearu seemed to blame this partially on the U. S. "The great Capitalist absentee from League circles," said he with biting asperity, "has shipped 35,000 tractors to the great Communist absentee...
...University of Rome last week to divide homo sapiens, like Gaul, into three parts. This was important because the French semi-official newsorgan Le Temps proceeded next day to take the division most seriously. It is simple, logical, best of all allows everyone else to shift the whole blame for nearly everything upon L'Oncle...
...will not challenge again. It's no use. We cannot win," he said. "I could not have had better . . . sportsmen to race against. You cannot blame them for doing their very best...
After the wettest, coldest summer in years?a summer that rotted potatoes in the ground in Ireland, nearly ruined the French wheat crop, brought disastrous business to summer resorts?all Europe fried last week. Newspapers, eager to blame anything from the cost of living to the morals of the younger generation on the U. S., wrote columns about the "American heat." Only wine and wheat growers rejoiced, hoped that the dry, hot weather would revive the remnant of their water-logged crops...