Word: villaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...handsome fugitive convict whom Monica "understands" is, of course, proved innocent. Nor does she more than "understand" him, and he her, though other possibilities, and a deep-dyed hydraulic. company villain, stalking various tracts of real estate, suffice to complicate the prospects of Hero Anthony Garland, cultivated consumptive, until the last paragraph, where man and woman throb together on a mountain beholding the usual "promise of another...
Ileana, Princess of Rumania, is the girl friend. The villain in the case is the New York World, which last week published "a fairy story from life." It told how Ileana met her "Prince Charming" in the form of Cadet Glasgow at a West Point dance in October; how she returned two weeks later with her mother to watch him march in the rain; how, the day before sailing, she rushed up to West Point to have luncheon with Cadet Glasgow (and others). She had invited him to luncheon in Manhattan, but Superintendent Merch B. Stewart of West Point...
Shaw might be accused of being mercenary if financial terms were the only ones for which he cared. But true artist that he is he has something to say about who shall mime his characters. Tunney would do very well, but there is in addition to a hero a villain. And the villain a the author has his way and this author usually does will be acted by the unfortunate Mr. Dempesey Shaw's kownness is remarkable; but if memory serves correctly he has other motives than aesthetic ones. He had a wager up once on the Dempsey Carpentier fight...
Germany was kept out of the League (TIME, March 29) at a League session called especially for her admission, simply because the nations holding nonpermanent seats on the League Council were not unanimously in agreement that Germany should be admitted to a permanent seat. Brazil, the popular villain of this obstruction, gave notice of her resignation from the League-effective two years hence (TIME, June 21). Spain, equally bent on obtaining a permanent seat, launched a campaign of pressure against the League Powers which culminated last week in the reopening of the Tangier question. (See INTERNATIONAL...
...Cavalleria, Rusticana. II Piccolo Marat, for instance, which has been given in Rome and Buenos Aires though never in Manhattan, is a far neater piece of construction; four interweaving orchestral tones, built on four connected themes, knit the score to- gether; the scene is Nantes during the Terror, the villain, one Orso, a guillotining cockaded butcher, the heroine is his daughter, the hero, a nobleman so pure that he is called "The Little Marat." What more could one ask? And yet Pietro Mascagni, now walking a ship's deck...