Word: villainized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Funnies. In Andover, Mass., three boys, aged 8 to 10, piled rocks on a railroad track, derailed a Boston & Maine handcar, explained they were imitating a favorite comic book villain...
Jose Ferrer, playing the wily villain of the play, Iago, threatens at various moments to steal the show from Robeson. He portrays with evil genius the wicked shrewdness and the twisted mind that produces the tragedy of "Othello" by mastering the simple strength of the Moor. By a crook of the finger, a clearing of the throat, a lift of the eyebrow, Ferrer probes the depths of the villain's complicated character more thoroughly than could a less capable actor by an entire speech...
Thus Charlie Wilson-despite the fact that he too wanted to quit his war job and reconvert G.E.-had come to seem the villain. And Donald Nelson, fumbling feebly with minuscule moves toward reconversion (he is called "Mr. Next Tuesday" by disgruntled WPBsters) had come to seem the hero of Reconversion...
...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
...fight), "Black Sheep" (commanded by famed "Pappy" Boyington). They turned Rabaul into a graveyard of Jap ships while they made screwball talk over their radios: "Here comes Jack Armstrong, the a-a-alll American boy. Ratatat-tat." . . . "Which way'd they go, sheriff?" . . . "Thataway, pardner." . . . "Avast, ye villain, I'll pay the mortgage, take that and that and that...