Word: blame
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cent!" Amid cries of "Don't pay a cent!" massive Premier Herriot faced his Chamber of Deputies, placed blame for the debt muddle squarely upon the shoulders of Herbert Hoover. Said he: "The Hoover moratorium is the cause of all the trouble in which America's debtors are now involved. If the U. S. did not wish to concern itself with the problem of reparations, Mr. Hoover should not have become involved in it." But to M. Herriot blame and honor were not to be confused. Dramatically he reminded the Deputies of "Les Soldats Americains," raised his great...
...finds it easier to place the blame for this undergraduate unconsciousness on the shoulders of educators and doting parents, rather than on the student himself. That unconsciousness is the product of a system, conceived withal for his benefit, which gives many a youth more pocket money than he can possibly spend, which often considers his whims of more importance than those of his family in readjusting the budget, which feeds and clothes and amuses him with luxury,--which, in short, places him in a class entirely removed from the rest of the world...
...least half the burden of blame must be shared by a subway company which provides no extra accommodations for the extra customers, which allows cars to become so crowded that it requires only the spark of a merry jostle to fire mob imaginations. But this is hardly sufficient to excuse the hilarious destruction. Regardless of incentive, no gentleman will forget that there are rights other than his own, that in the event of a riot his name, coupled to that of his College, will make splendid first page news for Boston city editors...
...sluggish duodenum may let poisons get into the system. In some cases poorly functioning livers or kidneys seem to be the blame...
Germans were reminded by a majority of their Press that Democrat Roosevelt is of the same party as President Wilson, whom Germans blame for the Polish Corridor and other "infamies" of the Treaty of Versailles...