Word: ransoming
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Swaggering Sneak. On the night of Jan. 6, with the murders of Miss Brown and Mrs. Ross behind him, George came swaggering into Bill's room and made him help plan the murder of little Suzanne Degnan. Then he made Bill give him the paper on which the ransom note was written. Bill sweated with anxiety all night, and the next morning there it was in the papers...
...best and littlest magazines, Horizon, has kept going in London through all the blitzes since 1940, elegantly edited by Cyril Connolly; among its contributors "blast" is too thoroughly understood as a technical term to be wished on anyone. In the U.S., two old Fugitive poets, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate, are editing the Kenyan Review and the Sewanee Review, respectively and passably, each at a college. And Uncle Alfred is still, indefinably, at large...
...administer the vast N.I.C.E., an organization to handle postwar England's technology and scientific development-ostensibly for the benefit of the common man. The champions of Good: a handful of rather painfully decent English types under the leadership and protection of the trilogy's hero, Dr. Ransom. In Lewis' sure hands the story becomes well-written, fast-paced satirical fantasy...
...many moral tales, Good is less sharply drawn than Evil; some readers may think good Dr. Ransom's mysterious sources of power more druidical than Christian. But for Christian Moralist Lewis, the allegory's the thing...
...week's end, Chicago had the answer. A rumpled, sore-eyed, unshaven Negro was turned loose on a Chicago side street. (The Daily News set the ransom at $100,000.) Ed couldn't seem to remember the kidnaping, his connection with the policy racket, or anything else. But Bronzeville's memory was excellent. From the pool and dance and spiritualist halls to Dr. Pryor's Holy Floor Wash Factory and King Solomon's Temple of Religious Science, there was holiday. Big Ed was back...