Word: ransoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Yale awarded the annual Bollingen Prize* in poetry (and $1,000) to John Crowe Ransom, no one was more surprised than John Crowe Ransom. Said that self-effacing poet, teacher and critic...
...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...
Cervantes' heroic determination helped Christendom to win one of history's decisive battles; it also got him three musket wounds, and one of them made his left arm useless for life. Later, on his way back to Spain, Moorish pirates captured him and held him for ransom in Algiers...
...prisoners. But after six years in the army and five years in captivity, he was no nearer to either of his goals than he had been at 22. For his four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter...
Destiny's Ransom. At week's end the Glasgow Daily Record published a petition, addressed to King George, which it had received through the mail. The petitioners, who did not sign their names, boasted that they had taken the Stone of Destiny, offered proof by giving unpublished but accurate details of the wrist watch left behind in the Abbey. They petitioned that the Stone be kept in Scotland henceforth, and taken to London only for the coronation of the King's successors...