Word: villainized
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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...
...chords within reach of the unschooled accompanist. Every tale has its moral lesson. In the Bryan song, the singer warns: If you want to go to Heaven, When your time on earth is through, You must be as Mr. Bryan, You will fail unless you do. The villain that brings little Mary Thagan to her "fatal doom" is made an object of pity as well as loathing. And the Floyd Collins song counsels-as the miners of Salem, Ky., well knew-to "get right with your Maker before it is too late...
Pyramids. What might be considered by the forward-looking the first play of the new season was not very good. It dealt with a handsome wife whose husband stole to buy her pretty clothes. Whereupon he was clapped firmly into jail and she went to live with the villain in the vain hope that his wealthy influence would liberate the unselfish sinner...
...BEAM'S?A spinster attempts to reform a villain who she believes will eat her alive...
...rogues the wretch who had corrupted an election, I would unhesitatingly declare the corruptionist the blackest scoundrel of them all. I would so say because the man who attacks the foundations of his Government and thereby assails the very structure of society is the greater criminal, the more intolerable villain, for his criminality poisons the soul of the Nation...