Word: abductors
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Jane Parker still seems to be more pleased than frightened. Her abductor does not disillusion her. Although he can only converse with monkeys and is, aside from his ability as a gymnast, convincingly subhuman, Tarzan shows a surprising grasp of the niceties of romantic love. He is only rough once, when he seizes Jane Parker's handkerchief, tears it in half and gives a disagreeable grunt...
...managing editor, Frank W. Taylor-with the Busch family, Reporter Brundidge learned that the name of Pearl Abernathy, a local Negro real estate dealer, had been mentioned in the Busch household. Next day the Star blazed out its first scoop: "Negro Real Estate Man Exposes Own Son [Charles] As Abductor." Also it printed nearly a full front page of pictures of the room where the boy had been held. Next day Reporter Brundidge was following a hot tip that led to a furnished room hideaway in Kansas City. Two days later he had Charles Abernathy's confession-with...
...make Engineer Randolph propose in a week. Hidden behind a window are the losing cronies who at the proper moment expose themselves, causing prodigious embarrassment to the engineer. The abduction, done in a spirit of fun and platonically, comes close to Serious Consequences when a half-breed steals both abductor's and abductee's horses in the desert. Thanks to Judith's habit of daily ablution, the water supply at that juncture amounts to half-a-canteen-full. When abductor, abductee and a young would-be rescuer reach the nearest water-hole, following a 20-mile drag...
Martin and Claire, faced by the challenge of Helen's kidnaping, sink their own love in a wild, valorous ride to rescue her. Helen's abductor is shot by Claire, who realizes in the heat of killing that she cannot take Martin from his wife of "wildrose beauty...
...Brooklyn, from the Kings County Hospital, Joan, a police-bitch, the property of a doctor, ran away or was stolen by a motorist. Boys and girls in the children's ward of the hospital moaned with grief. Having escaped from her abductor, or having decided of her own will to return to the Kings County Hospital, Joan fell through the ice into a pond on her way home. A policeman, attracted by her noise, pulled Joan out of the ice and returned her to the bedridden children, who were delighted...