Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Besides the 'official' or constant contributions, there are also extraordinary ones to be paid. . . . 'Constructing fences payment' is a polite term for kidnaping for ransom. If a peasant is unlucky, the Fire Society can easily arrest him on a charge of 'collaborating with bandits.' If he is clever and rich enough to send in some $200,000 CN or $300,000 CN, he becomes a 'repented' good citizen. Otherwise, his charge will change from collaboration to 'being a bandit'-and the sentence is death...
Such britches-busting boasts have helped to make little Billy a big nuisance to a great many people. A Broadway wit once snarled: "Nobody would ever kidnap Billy Rose. Who would pay the ransom?" Billy has been cussed up & down the main stem as a cheapskate, a blowhard and a social climber who "truckles to celebrities and yells at waiters." More recently, he has been denounced by some of his detractors as a phony intellectual...
...tipped their hats to the nursemaid, suavely persuaded her that they had been sent by father Gilbert to fetch his son, and disappeared into the mountains with Bab (in later life, Gilbert insisted that he remembered the scenery as being very fine). The bandits demanded, and promptly received, a ransom...
Born a generation after Eliot and Ransom, and the youngest member of the "Fugitive" group whose nucleus was Vanderbilt University, Warren has been profoundly influenced by the two older men, and through them, by the English metaphysicals. But there is another strain in Warren's experience as an artist, a strain which stems from his acute consciousness of his birth place, the South. In speaking of Warren's awareness of the land in which he grew up, Ransom has remarked that the South is a land where "The inhabitants are sensitively aware of the country in which they live, acknowledging...
...young (42) president, who was only 33 when he got the job; of its flying field and its curricular course in practical aeronautics, soon to be resumed after a wartime lapse; of its seven-year-old, widely respected literary quarterly, The Kenyon Review, edited by Poet-Critic John Crowe Ransom, a member of the college faculty...