Word: villainized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Vice President, Johnson was Lincoln's choice and a stanch Lincoln supporter, a fact overlooked by historians who cast him as a villain. Like the members of Franklin Roosevelt's "Janizariat," Johnson was attacked as a whipping boy by Lincoln's enemies. The picture does not omit the drunken spectacle Johnson made of himself at his inauguration as Vice President, but the documented fact that he was no habitual drunkard is underlined in the film by a letter to him from Lincoln: "You ornery old galoot; don't you know better than to drink brandy...
...might get along comfortably on 250 mg. or less during the season." The chemists believe the vitamin works as follows: During allergic attacks, such as hay fever, the vitamin-C level in the body goes down; at the same time, histamine in the blood goes up. Histamine is the villain of allergy, for it is an irritating substance normally present in small amounts in the body but formed in large quantities whenever tissues are dam aged - e.g., in the red area around a burn...
...Caribbean in the Golden Age of piracy. Hero is one Jamie-Boy Waring (Tyrone Power), who stands by his old captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), when Morgan decides to reform and put his buccaneering ex-mates out of business. Villain is Captain Leech (George Sanders, in a beard like a bonfire), also one of Morgan's raiders. The Black Swan is unreformed Captain Leech's pirate ship. Heroine is Lady Margaret Denby (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of Jamaica's ousted Governor...
...Villain. Less foggy were the words of Dictator-Gauleiter Laval. To his spitting hatred of the British, Laval added the U.S. and President Roosevelt. He dug back to the conquests of French Quebec and the West Indies for charges of Anglo-Saxon imperial cupidity. These he twisted into a cry that success of the Anglo-American alliance would mean domination by "Jews and Communists." Where he had once "hoped" for a German victory, Laval now said he was certain of it. Hedging, he added: "An entente with Germany is the only guarantee for peace in Europe...
...Erna, nephew of Walter and Lucille) was an enemy, U.S. attorneys summoned to the witness stand Ernest Peter Burger, one of the two saboteurs who tattled on the others to save their own skins. To Americans who think of spies in terms of the movie-made breed of sinister villain, Ernest Burger was a distinct surprise. His grey suit was neat and quiet, his thin brown hair slicked down tightly, his deep-set blue eyes calm. As a witness he was courteous, cooperative, almost eager. Only once did he seem at all what everyone had expected: a young, heel-clicking...