Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lectures and symposiums make up the collection of 30-minute tapes that has been assembled. Included in the collection are T. S. Eliot's Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture on "Poetry and Drama," and the 1950 Harvard Summer School Poetry Conference, with readings by Stephen Spender, John Ciardi, John Crowe Ransom, and Marianne Moore...
...varsity polo team dropped its last match of a winless winter season, losing to Yale, 17 to 6, in New Haven yesterday. Two seniors, Jerry Ianelli and Bruce Bogin, and two sophomores, Bob Ransom and Al Marggia played for the Crimson...
...Ransomed Poet. Gilbert was the older of the two by six years, and a personal devil of quiddity seems to have rocked his earliest cradle. At the age of two, while on a trip to Italy with his parents, he was snatched from his nurse's arms by two Neapolitan toughs, and held for a ransom of ?25. Papa paid. As Author Baily observes, "it was a bargain...
...wounded in the knee by a pirate bullet, and the ten-year-old reader of Treasure Island, who had become violently sick at his stomach from seeing the real thing. The Wing Sang's agents, Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., promised to repay the passengers who had chipped in ransom money. British, U.S. and Chinese Nationalist ships kept a lookout for a handsome buccaneer, wearing brown leather gloves and a gold wristwatch, who made short speeches...
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