Word: ransoming
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When Empson read it aloud, his Bacchus swept his hearers away with its sonority and music, having an effect that Poet John Crowe Ransom likened to "the blazing beauty of fireworks." But what most impressed them was the detachment with which this prodigious man regarded a notoriously threatened and self-conscious world. The last poem in his new book was a meditation on world culture...
...ever had. Rutherford B. Hayes (Class of 1842) was among the undergraduates who had roomed there. Over the years, Kenyon had grown up around it, a distinguished small men's college (700 students) with an Episcopal and literary tradition (its best-known professor nowadays: Critic John Crowe Ransom...
...Lincoln and a Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
William L. Ransom, New York expert on international law, died of a heart attack Saturday while attending a conference at the Law School. He was 65 years...
...Ransom served as president of the American Bar Association in 1935-36 and was adviser to the United States representative to the permanent UN Court of International Justice at the San Francisco Conference...