Word: villainous
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...Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author Davis tries to tell what ,ldous Huxley calls the Whole Truth About his people there is no hero in his hook, no villain. Uncle Lincoln is a rhetorical sot and a nasty old man when drunk: but with his mother he is a different character. His wife Josie. a sinister strong woman, might easily become a heroine in less clever hands than Author Davis'. Theodora is the adventuress of the family, with...
...Clapp, managing director of the National Electric Light Association, to see President Hoover whom he served in European food relief and later as a special assistant in the Department of Commerce. Two years ago before the Federal Trade Commission, N. E. L. A. was depicted as a subtle industrial villain who poisoned schools, colleges and Press with "Power Trust" propaganda. It was now as something of an industrial hero that N. E. L. A. in the person of Mr. Clapp reported last week to the President that its members would spend $600,000,000 this year in new construction...
...still shy, scholarly and a Dickens enthusiast but he does not take himself so seriously as he did at 13. The Tale of Two Cities, he decided not long ago, might make a good operetta if the plot were juggled around a bit. Charles Darnay might become a conventional villain, Sidney Carton could escape and go back to Lucy, sedate Miss Pross could become a comedienne called Prossie. . . . He proceeded haltingly to pick out tunes on the piano...
...Farquhar '32, induces his father to buy up the debts of the father of Betty-Ann Sawyer, a part played by R. W. Kuhl '32, and thus makes it possible for him to marry her. S. C. Dorman '33 takes the part of Mason Bradley, the smooth villain, who nearly outwits Gerry Randall in their courtship of Betty-Ann. The next to the last scene is laid in Steve's speakeasy, in which M. A. Heath '33, playing the part of the bartender does a clever piece of acting...
...were Lieut.-Colonel Erasmo Delgado, the Great Detective who nearly solved the mystery of the bomb that wrecked the bathroom of President Machado's son-in-law fortnight ago, and Lieut. Miguel A. Calvo, chief of the Bomb Squad of the National Police. Still convinced that the real villain back of the bathroom bombing was none other than ex-Mayor Miguel Mariano Gomez, Great Detective Delgado raided La Purisma Market, formerly operated by the municipal administration of Senor Gomez, discovered a complete bomb factory, 200 pounds of dynamite, fuses, tin cans, other impedimenta, not counting piles of rifles...