Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly, on thousands of "mysterious cylinders, maps of prevailing winds, nose-blankets of cottonwool," showing how completely by surprise the first gas attack took the Allied military and intelligence forces in 1915. As to acting, the show is put over, as so many European ones are, by that arch-villain, Conrad Veidt. When America has brought that competent film star of Hollywood its movie personnel will be complete...
...every two minutes during the last two acts, and after the first dozen or so one becomes distinctly indifferent about his fate. As a mystery thriller, "Ten-Minute Alibi" does not have much to recommend it; as a melodrama it is of the young-girl-seduced-by-the-handsome-villain school...
...Vridar and Neloa which is free from physical horror, blows, screams, and tears. Naturalism in character portrayal, when it is essayed by a writer whose philosophy is as dark as Mr. Fisher's, must always become picaresque; the ideal hero may have lost his significance, but the actual villain is always with...
...protracted Sunday-supplement feature story. The First Billion casts the late James Stillman for the No. 1 role, with his son. James, his daughter-in-law, "Fin." Frank Vanderlip and Charles E. Mitchell in minor parts. Though Biographer Winkler cannot make Banker Stillman out a double-dyed, red-handed villain, he does succeed in conveying the impression that he was cold as a fish, unlovable, cautious, secretive, able. As Winkler tells it. the precocious but well-boosted rise of James Stillman from Manhattan cotton broker to president of the National City Bank reads like an Alger success-story. Once...
...nasty indictment-but who was the villain? There was much loose talk of a wicked Whiskey Trust, but none of the indignant publicists would give its name or address...