Word: kidnaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis policemen-Lieut. Louis Shoulders and Rookie Elmer Dolan-were hailed as heroes for arresting the kidnap-killer of little Bobby Greenlease, but their glory faded fast: half of the $600,000 ransom had vanished. Dolan was suspended from the force, and Shoulders resigned; then both were convicted of perjury for lying about handling the ransom money...
This week the Russians tried to kidnap Evdokia, and almost succeeded. They hustled her into a black Cadillac, sped 190 miles at top speed to Sydney. At the airport, an angry crowd mobbed the Cadillac, tried to overturn the car. The Russian guards dragged Evdokia through the gates while the mob, now 3,000 strong, chanted "Don't let her go." Trying to smile for photographers, Evdokia wept instead, covered her face with both hands. Scores jumped the fence onto the field, broke past police lines to tug at Evdokia and strike at her guards. Witnesses said they heard...
...swear "loyalty" to the Confederacy. In St. Louis, Federal boats were burned at the levee. In New York City, 15 hotels and Barnum's Museum were set afire in a vain effort to burn the whole city to the ground. In Louisville there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice Presidentelect Andrew Johnson, and in Chicago, Hines himself arrived to direct "an armed rebellion of thousands of Copperheads." What happened there was to happen many times to Hines in his efforts to start rebellions in Illinois. Ohio and Indiana: the news leaked out. Federal troops arrived, and the leaders...
Each year editors of national journals ring in the New Year with memories of the old. These reviews almost always include the year's best kidnap, the annual war news of an outstanding murder, but never do they mention an event from the world of scholars and professors. And each year people continue to wonder, don't the intellects ever do anything...
...political furniture could just as well be Grand Rapids-it is only there for the hero and heroine to fall over. As a result, Director Reed spends much of his time straining for exquisite effects (e.g., the hoarse crunch of snow under the Russian kidnap-car as it crawls like a malevolent beetle in pursuit of the heroine) that go with the rest of the picture about as well as a Dostoevsky passage goes with Erie Stanley Gardner...