Word: kidnapping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been renominated in 1916 and again in 1922 and still again in 1928 he would today, aged 50, be seventh in Senate seniority. But there was War in 1917 and Luke Lea organized an artillery battalion, became a real Tennessee Colonel, fought with distinction, tried (and nearly succeeded) to kidnap the Kaiser. Then he plunged into publishing the Nashville Tennessean, Memphis Commercial Appeal and Evening Appeal, Knoxville Journal...
...advanced straight upon Chefoo. Seemingly Marshal Chang had left the siege to be maintained by subordinates. When they informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...
...letter received yesterday by Captain M. J. Brennan, of the police force, the Commission asked him to kidnap the "half starved cats who perch on the back-yard fences" and disturb the sleep of many a Harvard man. The Housing Commission suggested no method by which the cats may be gotten rid of, however, and Captain Brennan said that he was also at a loss to think of a plan of action that might be employed in the war on the felines. He suggested that he might call for volunteers among his men to form a "bean blower squad...
...brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee, Li-Li-Wee, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon. Li-Li-Wee's husband then plays dominoes with the son of the Grand Eunuch instead of operating on him; thus providing the most extraordinary happy-ending which has yet been permitted on the Manhattan stage...
...slipped out a rear door and into a carriage; eluded detectives; drove across the bridge (Ohio River) into Indiana. There, despite several efforts to kidnap or to extradite him, and despite the pardon issued for him by Kentucky's next Republican Governor (Augustus E. Willson) in 1909, he lived until last week, a respected citizen of Indianapolis, but for reasons of his own an exile...