Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband, is destitute, and consequently profits greatly by the loans which Michael persuades her to accept. Striving toward greater respectability than the law allows them, the two are married, thus laying themselves open to prosecution for bigamy. Of course the wayward husband eventually returns. In an attempt to blackmail Michael, who is by this time a prosperous novelist, the scoundrel's insolence leads to a scuffle and he falls dead of a heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their...
...Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...suggestion is that someone blackmail Prof. Seymour and send him a black-hand note to the effect that he leave the blueprints of the House Plan under a certain elm at midnight or something will happen. Once the blueprints were out of the way, the undergraduates could do almost anything. --Yale News...
...Blackmail, Lion...
...Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail...