Word: fault
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...credit rightfully went to Gable's witty, fast-paced performance. He has managed through the years to keep up the pace, if not always the wit; a full Gable catalogue would include several dozen pictures ranging in altitude from the high-flown, windy Gone, which was hardly his fault, to the lowdown, torrid Somewhere I'll Find You, brought out shortly after he left Hollywood in 1942 to join the Army...
...Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
...Frank L. Driver, president of Harrison, N.J.'s Driver-Harris Co., put benches in his personnel offices, ordered coffee, sandwiches, crullers and pies, sprinkled the slippery sidewalks with sand. Said one apologetic picket: "The strike was orders from higher up. The company knows it's not our fault...
...talk about literature, music, and politics, that characterized the old University, in the wartime bull sessions showed that American students just weren't thinking about those things. It wasn't their fault, really. They were younger than peacetime undergraduates; the faculty, especially that part of it which was closest to the students and which gave stimulation to so many of them, suffered shattering losses. The root of the problem, however, can be found in the instability and acceleration that began with the drafting of 18-year-olds...
...hapless publisher swore it was not his fault. "Because of the recent [war] situation," said he, "I can no longer control my writers...