Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beggs, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Russell; H. G. Dorman Jr., Miss Sanita Fajardo: H. A. Jacobs, Miss Marry Ransom: A. P. E. Chalufour, Miss Hazel Ames; A. G. Smith, Miss Evelyn Marston; L. K. Macnair, Miss Louise Hawkings...
...passed (TiME, May 12, 1923, et seq.) since a horde of Chinese bandits rushed down the steep, cloudswept sides of the mountain Pao-tzu-ku, derailed the Peking-Shanghai express near Lincheng, carried off 24 foreigners and nearly 300 Chinese into their impregnable lair, there to hold them for ransom while the representatives of the Occidental powers worried and fumed and sent stern reminders daily to the equally worried and more impotent Chinese Government...
...Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes him invisible, into a magic ring. Wotan, father of the gods, needs the gold to pay a ransom, seeks out Alberich, takes ring and helmet from him. "Cursed is he who wears that ring," cries Alberich. Then lovely Erda, mother of the Norns, appears to Wotan. "Twilight shall come upon the gods," she says; "their proud towers will crash down. Woe to Wotan." Shaken by this awful utterance...
Bandits captured and held for ransom one R. T. Berrinean, an American, General Manager of a lumber and turpentine company. U. S. Counselor of Embassy H. F. Schoenfeld reported the matter to the Mexican Foreign Office...
...pluck the political lamb come to the slaughter. The newly-formed Managers' Protective Association, formed by Lee Shubert as a rival to the old Producing Managers' Association, has made known that seats to 75% of the current attractions, controlled by them, will not be sold for a small ransom...