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Word: villainously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriously, it's terrible. If he dashed it off with his tongue in his cheek it's very good. There hasn't been so much plot in one place since East Lynne. It all begins in Venice with a clandestine love affair. Then comes the villain to take the hero back to his dying father. Eighteen years and a good deal of dirty work pass. The hero has married the railroad king's daughter and the heroine has become a great actress. Each thinks the other has played false. The villain has attended to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Holbrook '30 will be the "villain." Other major members of the cast will be R. S. Ogden '31, J. N. Trainer '31, J. P. Davis '30, and E. W. Olney...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHIEF ACTORS IN CURRENT PUDDING SHOW ARE CHOSEN | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

Detectives from Scotland Yard being perennial favorites, Author George Dilnot catalogs their technique; and includes, gratuitously, a murder, escape, poison, embezzlement, beautiful heroine, mad villain ?all in The Black Ace (Houghton-Mifflin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Standard and Travesty | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

ELIHU ZWILLING Villain, leader of anti-Childs stockholders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Childs' War | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Awakening. Vilma Banky, without Ronald Colman, but helped by good photography and Louis Wolheim's battered face, makes fairly acceptable a story based on suspected, but not real unchastity, with a happy ending made possible by the self-sacrifice of a villain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 21, 1929 | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

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