Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert ("Blabbermouth") Bates, 57, serving a life sentence for the 1933 kidnaping of Oklahoma Oilman Charles Urschel, died in Alcatraz prison without ever blabbing where he had hidden his $100,000 in ransom money...
...boroughs, almost 13 million in its metropolitan area-at least three million more than in Greater London. Its wealth is incalculable. Its physical assets are worth as much as all the real estate in the eleven western states. Its 157 banks and 94 insurance companies handle treasures which would ransom an army of maharajas...
...Corporal works of mercy: to feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked, harbor the harborless, visit the sick, ransom the captive, and bury the dead. Spiritual works of mercy: to instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offenses willingly, comfort the afilicted, and pray for the living and the dead...
...Ransom left Vanderbilt in 1937 for a variety of reasons, among them the low pay (after 23 years, a reported $3,600). At Kenyon he became professor of poetry, gathered another galaxy of bright lights around him,* and in 1939 founded the Kenyon Review, one of the most distinguished of U.S. little magazines...
...Ransom's students have learned that he expects to be treated only as "one gentleman among others." Says Tate: "I think he was a great teacher by not being...