Word: blackjacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of fair play is lacking when particular people are singled out for official venom. If the Democrats get a vote of confidence next fall, they will continue in office with the deep distrust of the large body of people that have fallen victim to the blackjack blows of press-agent Michelson and his White House scribes...
Boomerang & Blackjack...
Suddenly the little groups coalesced into one big one, which rushed the theatre. First fists flew. Then blackjacks. Policemen's nightsticks thudded in the dark. Growing momentarily, the crowd surged down the street to the Strand. Crash! Down came the advertising displays. Back & forth between the Strand and the Palace shuttled the mob. Someone had a crate of eggs. Others bombarded the police with hard cinders, soft, squashy fruit. Badgered policemen drew their pistols, spattered the pavement with bullets. Perhaps students, too, had pistols. One bullet ricocheted into the leg of Edward Nabors, 36, as he skirted...
Elite Black Shirts, added Leader Mosley, will be used as "ushers" (i.e. bouncers and strong-arm men) at Mosley mass meetings. Until recently the average dedicated Black Shirt carried a rubber blackjack known as a "Mosley truncheon," but this, Sir Oswald insists, has been put aside. "They were only used," he announced dramatically, "after our men had been slashed for weeks by the Communists with razors...
...stories of accidental death and incriminating circumstances. The last version, which he gave firmly from the witness stand last week, was that Freda had slipped while stepping from the dock into a rowboat, had cracked her head on the boat. Fearing she was dead, he hit her with his blackjack, he said, because "it occurred to me that if there were only some mark on Freda's body it would look like an accident and leave...