Word: ransoming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family last week were allowed to leave Vienna, went to London. He was permitted to take his library with him, had to abandon his other properties including his publishing house. According to the London Daily Herald, Sigmund Freud was held in Vienna until wealthy friends paid a ransom for his release. In London, in the furnished house in Chelsea his son Ernst has rented for him, Freud will pick up his interrupted labors-at present a psychoanalysis of the Bible...
Edward Austin fellowships to: Howard F. Bennett 1G & G. Ed. John T. Black, Sorbonne, Paris. Harold W. Davey 2G. Bayard Cutting Fellowship for Research in Physics, Ivan A. Getting, Junior Fellow. George and Martha Derby scholarship, George F. Cronkhite '38. Du Pont fellowship, Willard Weaver Ransom, 3G. George H. Emerson-scholarships to: Saul G. Cohen, 1G. John B. Lyons, '38, Edmund W. Sinnott Jr. '38, Ralph I. Smith '38. Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship, Allen R. Hyde 2G. Ozias Goodwin memorial fellowship, Harvey S. Perloff 2G. William Watson Goodwin, fellowships to: Albert H. Travis 2G, Frederic Peachy 2G. Harris fellowship, Lawrence...
PRINCETON, FLA.--G-Mon tonight pinned their hopes for early solution of the kidnaping of five-year-old Jimmy Cash on appearance of bills in the $10,000 ransom paid by James Cash, Sr., for return of his only...
...mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble of Marya Zaturenska and the glibness of Robert Hillyer have evidently rung louder in the cars of the Pulitzer Committee in recent years than the works of such really outstanding American poets as Tate, Stevens, Eberhart and Ransom, all of whom are of immeasurably greater stature...
...just as archaic diction seems false, so does archaic temper, and living poets' art must be as "contemporaneous as our banking or our locomotion." In the modern world people seek "isolated perfections" in the different realms of human life, poets no less than others. Professor Ransom deplores this, because it makes the beauty of "pure" poetry cloistered and the beauty of "obscure" poetry teasing and evasive. As a means of bringing poetry back to the position it once held, he suggests that writers study those elements in human experience that cannot be dissociated. But, he says, he makes...