Word: ruff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean, let them stand. They are good tags because they mean little, explain nothing. No one has ever explained Dominico Theotocopuli. Neither arrogant nor humble, he loved arrogance and understood humility. He painted many gentlemen of Spain for their pride, their narrow hands, their pale and pointed faces, their ruffs and their sombre eyes in which still smoldered the last fires of the Inquisition. He liked them because, having banished the spirit, they were very near to life, but he liked better those saints who, having banished the flesh, had embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng...
Kidnaping. Meanwhile the bandit leader had ordered Joseph Ruff and the Zahlers back into their car. "This is the man we want!" he said pointing to Mr. Rosenthal, who stood shivering in the rain, clad only in a thin summer suit...
...Please!" cried Mr. Ruff, "Mr. Rosenthal is my father-in-law. Please let him go and let me take his place...
Telegram. A few hours later Mrs. Ruff received at her home in Woodmere, L. I., a telegram from her husband: "Papa kidnaped. No danger. Expect release today." Distracted, Mrs. Ruff sought her mother, Mrs. Rosenthal. She, courageous, left at once, alone, for Mexico City...
Promptly three arrested suspects were placed in a line of 50 prisoners and Mr. Ruff, Mr. Rosenthal's son-in-law, was invited to identify them if he could. Frantic, he not only identified the men at once but begged the police to give him a gun that he might shoot them. A few hours afterwards the authorities announced that the three prisoners had been shot by the police as they endeavored to escape...