Word: archvillains
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Sunbathed Neutrals. The Dulles decision won hearty approval in Congress, where cotton-state legislators are nervous about cotton-growing Egypt and where Zionist spokesmen have held Nasser to be the Middle East's archvillain. The Sen ate Appropriations Committee earlier had been so bold as to "order" Dulles not to make the Aswan loan from Mutual Security funds. Dulles firmly resisted such an unconstitutional demand. But the whole argument became academic when Dulles decided, for foreign policy reasons...
Though three other officers and ten smaller fry were also on trial, archvillain of the piece was Major Sueyo Matoba, a slim, mild, scholarly Jap with a sadistic nature which had won him the nickname "Tiger of Chichi Jima." Major Matoba had stomach ulcers; he also loved sake...
...little on how cleverly she does it, that she ends up by being not frightening but fantastic. The authors were so busy thinking up new villainies for her that they clean forgot to make Guest in the House either tense or tenable. Along with the season's archvillain they have created its prize nitwits: any family bright enough to tell time or manage a knife & fork would see through Evelyn in two minutes flat...
...masculine gender. The hero, as told in Jules Verne's novel, is solemnly commissioned by the Tsar Alexander to take a message from Moscow to the Grand Duke in Irkutsk. After encountering the Tartar hordes single-handed for no good reason, Mike arrives in time to kill the archvillain with his bare hands. The motivation puerile, the photography clumsy, it has, however, some good horse-backing...
Behind the vast banking enterprises of today stand figures of whom the public knows little, and cares less. They seldom appear individually even in their old role of archvillain, Publisher Hearst and ilk having grown discouraged by repeated demonstrations of Capitalistic probity. As the technique of their profession has become sensitized, bankers themselves have been increasingly obliged to hide their personal lights beneath institutional bushels...