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Word: villian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...placing of blame involves a separate examination of each specific case where a legitimate complaint can be made. In one case the University will bear the responsibility; in another it is Cambridge. Perhaps the easiest villian to overlook is the citizen whose home or commercial establishment fronts on a street in the vicinity of the Square. Essentially, easy winter walking depends upon a good neighbor policy of shoveling sidewalks immediately after a snowfall. In chilly New England a quick job in this respect alone can prevent the formation of an icy coating which will remain until the thaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Snow, Sidewalks, and Shovels | 1/29/1949 | See Source »

...underwriting seamen's pay (still low according to American standards) and company profits. And every time jolting Joe Curran and Harry Lundeberg feel itchy and sailors on the nation's waterfronts tumble off the ships, they cast a longing thought back over the hectic thirties. For then the villian was rich, boated and all capitalist, and not wearing red, white and blue suspenders...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

Died. Harry E. Thurston, 67, ex-vaude-villian, brother of the late, great Prestidigitator Howard Thurston; in Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 19, 1941 | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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