Word: blamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Denio represented business. "You can't blame business for being just a little suspicious," he said. Business isn't sure whether Hopkins' now appeasement policy is sincere or a political expedient, Denio said, but he believes that business is willing to cooperate...
...these tracks in the sand did not make themselves. Much of the blame can justly be eased onto the feeble and barren instruction which the University frequently offers. Too many professors and instructors are--what is worse than incapable--disinterested in students and unwilling to help solve their problems. Too many courses are simply a chaos of information, disconnected and illogical, which only extraordinary minds can organize. Unusual minds can; others are forced across Massachusetts Avenue...
...apologies. His "noble friend's" words, the Prime Minister conceded, were "not very happily chosen." The fleet is always ready for emergencies, particularly in times of tension. In a mood reminiscent of Stanley Baldwin, who was never happier than when confessing to errors, Mr. Chamberlain himself took full blame for sending out the "D" order, admitted it was a mistake caused by a desire to "spare the public unnecessary agitation...
...might have fainted, but his teammates grabbed him, hoisted him to their shoulders, marched him triumphantly around the hall. "I don't know how I did it," he kept saying. "I never did it before, and I probably never will again. Blame it on luck." Then, back on his feet again, he rolled out his singles turn with 173-166 for a 639, 75 pins behind the leader, scarcely worth marking...
...Fair, and through it is woven an implausible little romance of the meets-loses-gets variety. The latter angle is handled in taste and in tune by Bayard Dillingham '40 and David Sheppard '41. The rest of the acting leaves much to be desired, although the cast can blame this with some justice on the book...