Word: villains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McAvoy, Malcolm McGregor). Cradle-snatchers again. A young man, nowadays, seems to pay as inevitably as the harassed heroines of a decade ago. At a roadhouse, the hero, law-student, jigs with women too old to trade in their own personality. But he loves the cigaret girl. The villain lures her to a boathouse, where, once in his fell clutches, who can say what fearsome fate is in store? Just when the audience might, if it cared, drop out of its seats because of the horrible suspense, the hero romps along with his right uppercut in good working order...
...teeth at the young matchflicker who had undone him, but he detected no anti-Fascist plot. Not so the Roman press. There, where Fascist de Pinedo is regarded as a fit first mate for Christopher Columbus, headlines snarled: "VILE CRIME AGAINST FASCISM," "ODIOUS ACT OF ANTI-FASCISTS." A villain was even named by name, one Vacirca, an exile. Proudly piped Il Piccolo: "STRONG WILL OF MUSSOLINI WILL CONTINUE FLIGHT." Commander de Pinedo proceeded to Los Angeles (and doubtless to Hollywood), to wait...
...fully equipped, including spare, the handsome here of manly men and well-turned limb, who breaks hearts with a glance; Lady Evelyn, M. B. Wells '28 his true love and lady-in-waiting to Elizabeth, who continually interrupts the love making of this amourous couple. And shshsh! the villain, Ramon Pedro Jose etc, etc, etc, acted by George Higginson '27 ambassador and lieutenant of King Philipe of Spain, who don't mean right by our Nell! Ramon, scorned and repulsed, carries out to the best of his ability the commands of his King, as well he should do, and with...
...house at Albany, Alfred Emanuel Smith, four-time Governor of New York, thumbed the tattered pages of a manuscript of a roaring melodrama of old Ireland, The Shaughraun. Eyes twinkling with kindly memories he read his lines: in May he is to play the part of the black-hearted villain in the plot, Cory Kinchela, at the 100th birthday of St. James Catholic Church, Manhattan. In that parish his early days were spent; three times before he has played the villain of The Shaughraun...
...circumstances of being wounded and imprisoned, and of seeing Camilla Dame (heroine) walking in her pretty garden. Kirk Hale, the cousin to whom the author devotes most of his attention, is as thoroughly a blackguard in his way as was Captain Flagg of What Price Glory, the model hero-villain of all Park Row War fiction. Only, unfortunately, he is a dull blackguard, subject to long states of his author's laboring mind. Similarly Anthony Hale, the noble cousin: his silence is not eloquent...