Word: ransomes
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...Rheingold, he will "own the world and all its mighty power." Alberich scrambles to the gold, curses love, vanishes. He has his brother Mime hammer the gold into a helmet which makes him invisible, into a magic ring. Wotan, father of the gods, needs the gold to pay a ransom, seeks out Alberich, takes ring and helmet from him. "Cursed is he who wears that ring," cries Alberich. Then lovely Erda, mother of the Norns, appears to Wotan. "Twilight shall come upon the gods," she says; "their proud towers will crash down. Woe to Wotan." Shaken by this awful utterance...
Bandits captured and held for ransom one R. T. Berrinean, an American, General Manager of a lumber and turpentine company. U. S. Counselor of Embassy H. F. Schoenfeld reported the matter to the Mexican Foreign Office...
...pluck the political lamb come to the slaughter. The newly-formed Managers' Protective Association, formed by Lee Shubert as a rival to the old Producing Managers' Association, has made known that seats to 75% of the current attractions, controlled by them, will not be sold for a small ransom...
...Rough country ladies," turned bandits, carried off "many young men of rich families" and held them for ransom. Some of the "ladies" were pretty, so the captives got married and settled down to a life of banditry. Meanwhile, picked soldiers, "more heartless in treatment of their captives than the men in the interior districts," were "armed with modern pistols and iron clubs" and sent to "get" the "rough country ladies...
...These final measures are the ransom France must pay for a policy in the Ruhr which has prevented any settlement of the reparations problem. They are a confession of failure. It was the Ruhr occupation which caused depreciation of the franc; if the franc improves it will not be thanks to the measures now being voted but to the work of the experts and consequent abandonment of the policy which France inaugurated 14 months...