Word: abducts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President James Carey of Princeton's Class of 1929 apologized to President John Grier Hibben of the University and offered damage payment for his classmates' vandalism of last June when they overturned and tried to abduct the Christian Student, allegorically righteous campus statue, perennially daubed by undergraduates and alumni with beer, flour, paint...
...southern part of the Philippine archipelago known as the Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery. It was inhabited by Moros ? bloodthirsty, polygamous, Mohammedan headhunters ? who lived in inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since retired into a policy of bad-tempered neglect. The Moros ran wild...
...Maharaja of Indore who, as everyone knows, was deserted by one of his dancing girls (Mumtaz Begum) last year and considered his princely honor so tarnished thereby that he reputedly despatched his Adjutant General and other trusted officials to abduct her from Abdul Kadir Bawla, rich merchant of Bombay, with whom she had taken refuge (TlME...
...Wild 'Fish Fang' Eskimos" says the Boston American, "abduct society girl"--a statement about as far from the truth as the headlines of that paper ever are. But apparently it merely relays the story from a London paper. The report is an elaboration of the tragic disappearance of Miss Marguerite Lindsay, which occurred early in August this summer...