Word: gated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children had been exposed to this sort of thing, of course. More than one house was burned to the ground in the '90s by small boys reading Nick Carter in the attic by candlelight. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West show set hordes of amateur buckaroos to lassoing gate posts and hapless cats. As early as 1907, the Youth's Companion promised boys who sent in a new subscription and $1.15 a "No. 3 striking bag . . . new pear shape, very popular, particularly adapted for quick work . . ." Girls could earn "artistic wood-burning outfits" by selling goldeye needles...
Linda's mother returned, heard the maid's story and anxiously opened the letter. Clumsily lettered, it read: "Your child has-been kidnaped . . . The amount is $20,000. cash or negotiable bonds. Put same in envelope on top of your Sol y Lomas gate tonight if you can. If not until tomorrow night put a red rag as sign ... If not at all-your kid will die of cold and hunger. New Mexico is an easy place to lose a body. Do not talk about this to police, FBI or friends. Any effort to interfere with our messenger...
...then notified police. The next night 30 policemen and FBI agents, equipped with walkie-talkie radios, were hiding in the vicinity of the Stamms' wooded estate, on the road to Las Vegas, when a figure shuffled past and reached under a rock by the gate. As police pounced, their captive protested: "I'm just a go-between...
...step was brisk and his back as straight as a ramrod. He passed through two rows of cheering [British] officers, and after turning at the gate to salute them, he acknowledged the salute of the German escort, who by that time had learned to salute...
...route will take the Band around Widener, out the gate near Lamont Library, and then down Massachusetts Avenue to Holyoke Street, where it will follow...