Word: ransomes
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...before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
This was his reaction to a dispatch that had every indication of veracity; a story that, in Los Angeles, three men had been arrested, that the police had been tipped off and, shadowing them, had heard them plotting to kidnap for $100,000 ransom first Mary Pickford, then Pola Negri, Buster Keaton and a four-year-old grandson of Edward L. Doheny, oil magnate. The story came with apparent veracity of circumstance. One or more of the prisoners was reported to have confessed; they faced long prison terms for criminal conspiracy...
When the Sultan of Morocco was harried by a lawless bandit from the hills, when that bandit seized upon a U. S. citizen and carried him off for ransom and satisfaction, the voice of Roosevelt boomed across the waters: "Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead...
...Beggs, Chairman, Miss Dorothy Russell; H. G. Dorman Jr., Miss Sanita Fajardo: H. A. Jacobs, Miss Marry Ransom: A. P. E. Chalufour, Miss Hazel Ames; A. G. Smith, Miss Evelyn Marston; L. K. Macnair, Miss Louise Hawkings...
...passed (TiME, May 12, 1923, et seq.) since a horde of Chinese bandits rushed down the steep, cloudswept sides of the mountain Pao-tzu-ku, derailed the Peking-Shanghai express near Lincheng, carried off 24 foreigners and nearly 300 Chinese into their impregnable lair, there to hold them for ransom while the representatives of the Occidental powers worried and fumed and sent stern reminders daily to the equally worried and more impotent Chinese Government...