Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to their feeling when Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. '37 eluded them at registration, the photographers in this case did not specifically blame Major Charles R. Apted '06, Superintendent of Caretakers, for their ill fortune, but looked accusingly upon one of his subordinates. They had not been told that everybody would leave by the southern entrance, and so could not accuse anyone of deliberate connivance. But they were inclined to feel that the president, whether advised by Major Apted or not, had taken unfair advantage of the opportunity to slip out unnoticed. One of them, indeed, was heard to remark...
Henry Louis Mencken, having been divorced from the finances of the American Mercury last-year, now announces his resignation from its editorship. No one will blame him for his unwillingness to be the last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime...
...Marinus van der Lubbe went on laughing. "Are you a Communist or a Socialist?" snapped Presiding Judge Wilhelm Bünger. "Yes-and no-I have my own views." "Why do you laugh?" "At the trial in general." The Nazi object in the entire performance was not only to blame the five Communist defendants for the fire, but to show the existence of a great international Communist plot from which the coming of Adolf Hitler is supposed to have saved the world. The Nazi prosecution did attempt to make some rejoinder to the world's charges that Nazis themselves...
When great numbers of dead & dying wild ducks were found drifting forlornly on the lakes of Alberta, the Calgary Fish & Game Association was inclined to blame alkaline water, summoned the University of Alberta's Professor William Rowan and two other naturalists to investigate. Professor Rowan & associates quickly exculpated the water. They described, in a report made public last week through a U. S. game protection association, an uglier cause-leeches. The Rowan report implied that food scarcity this year interferes with the duck's good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting...
Judge Keidan discreetly refrained from placing the blame on anyone. No one knew better than Judge Keidan that the number of indisputable facts adduced by his investigation was pitifully small. His jurisdiction was purely State; the U. S. Treasury, prowling around Detroit on its own secret investigation, refused to open the books of the two big defunct banks and forbade its overworked officials to bother with testifying. What Judge Keidan received were rattling salvos of highly- personalized undocumented charge and countercharge. The whole story, the true story was yet to be told...