United States or Algeria ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
You can either send that boy to a boarding-school next week, or he goes to Jerry Mitchell's friend. I'm not going to have him in the house any longer, loafing in my chair and smoking my cigarettes. Which is it to be?" "But, Peter!" "Well?" "If I send him to a school, he may be kidnapped." "Kidnapping can't hurt him. It's what he needs. And, anyway, if he is I'll pay the bill and be glad to do it.
"Much obliged," called Tom. "Come on, Ned," and he started back in the direction of the house where the kidnapping had taken place. "That ain't th' way t' 'vaterville!" the farmer shouted after them. "I know it, we're going to get our airship," answered Tom, and then he heard the farmer mutter. "Plumb crazy! That's what they be! Plumb crazy! Going after their airship!
'Tis really amazing that ye should be so busy and troubled about Catholics, take such pains in kidnapping Catholic children, and forcing Catholic servants to go to listen to your disgusting prayers and bellowing preachers, when your own children are beyond your control; go to bed like cattle, without ever bending a knee in prayer; and if they go to 'meeting, as it is properly called, it is only to mock the 'old fool' who holds forth to them."
It is a notorious fact, that large numbers of free colored persons are kidnapped every year in the free states, taken to the south, and sold as slaves. Hon. GEORGE M. STROUD, Judge of the Criminal Court of Philadelphia, in his sketch of the slave laws, speaking of the kidnapping of free colored persons in the northern states, says
My character but if I get off with life and liberty I'll win money yet and varnish that over again. I knew not of the gauger's job until the rascal had done the deed, and, though I had some advantage by the contraband, that is no felony. But the kidnapping of the boy there they touch me closer. Let me see. This Bertram was a child at the time; his evidence must be imperfect.
In the other category, crimes of organized banditry, coldblooded shooting, lynching and kidnapping have threatened our security. These violations of ethics and these violations of law call on the strong arm of Government for their immediate suppression; they call also on the country for an aroused public opinion.
But let us glance at a few passages in "Captain Singleton," which may show us why Defoe excels as a realist, and why his descriptions of "low life" are artistically as perfect as any descriptions of "higher life" in the works of the English novelists. Take the following description of kidnapping:
"Good heavens, Guy," I exclaimed when he hung up the receiver after calling up Warrington's garage and finding out what cars were available, "Are we going to have to extend operations over the whole State, after all?" "We may have to do almost anything," he replied, "if our scientific murderer tries some of his smooth kidnapping tricks.
Commissioner Sanders and his immediate superior for the kidnapping of so important a person as a Cabinet Minister was obviously founded upon an ignorance of the circumstances. Yet Sanders felt himself at fault, as a conscientious man always will, if he has had the power to prevent a certain happening.
"They must be aware that we know about the kidnapping." "I imagine so. At any rate Cranbourne intends to put them wise." "Then where's the object?" "Our friend Frencham Altar has disappointed 'em perhaps, so they turn their attentions once more to our humble selves." "Makes me almost wish we'd left the whole thing alone. Seventy thousand pounds in three weeks. Appalling! Appalling!"
Word Of The Day