Word: villainizing
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...Englishman who has been brought up sober, diligent and respectable, and his carrying off to sea to be made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship," as does the author whose passion for the sea runs through her former book
HELL-BENT FER HEAVEN - Bright realism applied to a Southern evangelist who tries to shuffle his way into heaven with the methods of the cinema villain...
...Bunker Hill is done with all the sincerity of the original. On the whole, a beacon light of American history, first of a series, well worthy of the backing of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Neil Hamilton is a capital hero (Barthelmess style), Lionel Barrymore a dynamic villain, and bird-like Carol Dempster acts very well when she isn't conscious of appearing on the same bill with George Washington...
...Premier Clemenceau of France took advantage of his temporary absence in England to sign a secret agreement at Paris, allowing France to occupy the Rhineland for 15 years. Mr. George was quoted as adding: "Yet I have always been attacked by many people in England as the villain of that piece." After a pause Mr. George was alleged to have continued: "Yes, I have just received the documents from the Foreign Office. The French now wish to publish the agreement between Wilson and Clemenceau and desire me to agree. It is a little late to ask for my consent...
Saturday Night A shopgirl out for a blow, who seems to be derived from O. Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...