Word: villainously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tombs' 1926 break, the prisoners trying unsuccessfully to shoot their way out. Two characters, the boy's brother and a Mother Darragh, suspect that it was the keeper who framed the boy. The third act requires four lingering, sobbing scenes to expose the philanthropist as the villain and the Blight, make the remorse-ridden keeper agree, "All right, I'll jump" (from the roof), give the brother a gun with which to kill the Blight. Title line: "Life is a crucible and God's in his heaven...
Moscow had a villain last week and his name was Oshkin Mikkhail. He was 20 times worse than a murderer. In fact a charge that he and an accomplice had once murdered a young Communist went almost unnoticed. To thousands of workers who go reluctantly for their meals to the Moscow Restaurant Trust the issue was: who has been putting hair into their cabbage soup, leaving bits of metal in their meat balls, giving them sugar with sand in it ? The State said that Oshkin was the man. With a whoop one of Moscow's swiftest propaganda trials...
...briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters are in Mora and most of its membership within New Mexico. In almost every Mexican village, says Fergusson. there is an apparently deserted building, the Morada, headquarters...
...also to an orphan girl about to be bound out for five years. Both, through appropriately creditable motives, become embroiled with the Budapest gendarmarie, and hide away in an abandoned bear den. They are joined by a monkey, a little boy lost, and in the nick of time the villain. The role of the latter is promptly and gratifyingly usurped by a midnight sortie of lions and tigers from their cages. The picture also begins to escape at this moment. For the rescue of both one is admiringly grateful to Rajah, the bull elephant...
...Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch burr soon made him a popular, villain. His first cinema, in 1912, was a talkie: an experimental version of Faust made at the Edison laboratories. His whiskers became really famed in the U. S. after Tol'able David, in which he was a Kentucky feudist with a homicidal mania. When he heard that $1,000 salaries...