Word: villains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first performance of the play ran very smoothly up to the part where the villain fired at the hero. This being the hero's cue he said as instructed. "My goodness. I'm shot!" But the feeling a warm trickle down his side, and mistaking it for a trickle of blood, cried, "--* --,* I AM shot! ! ! !" When a man is in danger or facing terrible torture, e. g. reading a Fashion Sheet Page, it is natural that he call upon the Deity. If you publish this letter it would be natural for me to exclaim, "God save me from...
...Villain" Burns emerged when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan...
...messages between a Mr. & Mrs. Duckstein who were respectively confidential secretaries to Publisher Edward B. McLean of the Washington Post and "Villain" Burns, read as follows: "Cravingly in Dxewonx resurge lodgement ailment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrage emerse vithouse punctators gob. . . ." This was translated: "According to Lambert's instructions the papers have been put in the safe deposit box belonging to you & Frazer in the Commercial Bank...
...midst of a storm of booings and hisses Stage Manager Big Bill Thompson has been obliged to ring the curtain down rather hurriedly on King George. Unlike his royal son the sovereign has proved unpopular, even in the comparatively fat role of arch-villain. And there was racing and chasing behind the scenes until they found the very sets to be rushed on and save the reputation of the house--the big flood scenes of the Mississippi River. Human interest, gripping incidents and, looking east'ard to the sea, timeliness...
...jail a Mrs. Anna Kessler rushed at cowering Mr. Koch. "You rat," she yelled, "you ought to be hanged! I'll kill you! Where is my ring? It cost $600! Tell me where it is, you villain!" Mr. Koch's plump cheeks puffed; his breath popped; he burst into tears. Police shouldered the angry matrons away and helped the rascal to a cell...