Word: blackjacking
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...Blackjack for the Kids. But a few months go, Dearborn began losing patience with Mayor Hubbard's lightheaded antics and heavy-handed rule. Voters reacted angrily when he tried to block a new $4,500,000 hospital which would be paid for with money donated by the Ford Motor Co., winced as he poured city money into a project known as Camp Dearborn, an elaborate public summer camp too far from the city to do most residents any good. When taxpayers complained, Little Orvie simply told them to shut up and raised property assessments...
...latest battle between Lewis and the law he calls a legal blackjack was joined. Miners with hungry bellies, and the nation, facing midwinter with a perilous two-to three-week supply of coal in its bins, could only hope the struggle would be short...
Idle Hands. In San Diego, Sailor David S. McKinley, arrested for carrying a weapon made of iron bolts wrapped with adhesive tape, explained: "I didn't have anything to do on the ship one day, so I made this blackjack...
Armed Might. In Highland Park, Mich., police arrested Francis Vivian and took away his arsenal: a long-bladed knife, a blackjack, bow & arrows...
...Blackjack Patrol. Fields squirmed at the thought that there might be comedians as he. He even accused Baby LeRoy of trying to steal scenes from him. Once, to get even, he spiked the infant's orange juice with gin, and when it thereupon fell asleep, shouted with glee: "The kid's no trouper. Send him home...