Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Klan of threatening freedom of the press. Said he: ". . . We shall fight to the death to keep the press free." At week's end, ten leading Milledgevillagers put up a $1,000 reward to help catch cross-burners. Said Editor Moore: "I think we're going to get somewhere this time...
...years ago brought even haughty Spaniards roaring to their feet when he fought on the same program with the great Juan Belmonte and José ("Joselito") Gómez y Ortega. Race-proud Spaniards called him El Indio, made him fight harder than the others for the reward of ears and tail...
...Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill gave the investigation an unheard-of twist. McGill announced that an anonymous "wool hat" Georgian, a firm believer in "white supremacy," had deposited with him a $500 reward for the arrest and conviction of Mallard's killers. Said the wool-hatter: "This is a white man's country and therefore the law is the white man's law. It is important that he live by it ... No decent white man, no real 'wool hat Georgian' will support murder and lynch violence...
...Captain Paddock decided Old Granary needed to be dressed up, so he imported 16 elm trees from England and planted them along the cemetery. They were his pride and joy, but unfortunately the youths of Boston town could not resist swinging on the limbs. The Captain once advertised a reward for "the Person or Persons that on Thursday night last cut and hacked one of the trees opposite his House . . ." Another time, espying a boy shaking one of the saplings, Captain Paddock "darted out of his house opposite and served him as he had served the tree...
Thus the Wursthaus will receive its errant balloon, which disappeared from the roof of the building Saturday night. Robert Menslage '50 will receive his reward for capturing the aerial float which he claims to have retrieved from the winds when it had broken loose after the Brown football game...