Word: villainous
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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...
...impatient sufferers (many of them dying), the good news came none too soon. Penicillin (sometimes rhymes with villain, sometimes with whistle in) is the best treatment for all staphylococcic infections, all hemolytic streptococcic infections, clostridia infections, pneumococcic infections (of the lining of skull, spinal cord, lung and heart surfaces), pneumococcic pneumonia that sulfa drugs will not cure, all gonococcic infections (including all gonorrhea that sulfa drugs will not cure). Diseases against which penicillin is effective but not fully tested: syphilis, actinomycosis, bacterial endocarditis...
...knights and ladies and kings with long red beards. In true Navy style, he sees a young girl and wins her love. The girl, being ignorant of modern customs, doesn't know how to neck but she is set wise quickly. After that, magicians, Merlins, disguises, and a feminine villain proceed to dominate the action...