Word: villainized
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Five (Arch Oboler; Columbia) tries to imagine what life would be like for the last five survivors of a worldwide atomic catastrophe.* Life, it seems, would be pretty dull. A couple of survivors die off, the third proves a villain who gets his just deserts, the fourth is a girl (Susan Douglas) who cannot afford the gesture of telling the fifth (William Phipps) that she wouldn't marry him if he were the last man on earth...
...platoon system is a chief villain in the mounting competition for football players, Dean Bender suggested. "Any good high school player," he noted, "might have 12 or 50 colleges camping on his doorstep. Scandals are the logical end product...
Enter the Villain. By such good reports in recent years, the Erie, once "synonymous with bankruptcy, litigation, fraud and failure," has lived down its reputation as the "Scarlet Woman of Wall Street." The man who seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
France Spain in the villain of the piece, and the reader is expected to recognize him and bias his appearance. Arturo Bares has a lot of bad things to gay about France Spain, and be says them in a matter of face way for most of his novel. Not until the book is almost over does it begin to speak for itself, and not until then is it truly a novel...
...Power be able to get to the pistol that he knows is lying behind the horse trough? Can he smuggle a note to the unsuspecting drivers of a stagecoach that stops briefly for a meal and a change of horses? Will Hostage Hayward lose her virtue to the leering villain (Jack Elam) who keeps a lecher...