Word: blackjacking
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...pulled out headboards and started on rummy, pinochle, hearts and blackjack. Some read comics and newspapers. A soldier looked up from his paper . . . and read names of brands from the sheet-names of cigarets, cigars, foods, liquors-and the card players grinned at the sound of them. . . . Men called out the names of stations-Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Cumberland...
...business." At last Watson solved his problem "by using show business and showmanship in the show business." Now he dresses for work in: 1) a Sam Browne belt, 2) a .38 automatic (with three extra clips of cartridges), 3) an iron-claw in a scabbard, 4) a blackjack, 5) a pair of handcuffs, 6) a "very shiny" gold badge, 7) ("on extra busy nights") a 24-in. police club in one hand and a flashlight in the other. His ushers also spread "a little propaganda" through the neighborhood "regarding how 'tough' the boss is, etc." Result: "the kids...
Homicide and Dogolatry. During the past four or five years the Gulch has twice made news: once with a shooting, once with an election. The shooting is mentioned only in shrouded tones, but it seems that one Blackjack Ward, irritated by nobody quite remembers what, drew a gun on one Johnny Tykes, chased him out of Brewer's across the street into a parking lot, and killed him much in the manner of the melodramas from which both had earned their beers. Blackjack was acquitted; the boys at Brewer's testified that he had acted in self-defense...
...their B-17s. Navigators, bombardiers and gunners sloshed through the sticky gumbo to ground classes, listened to daily lectures on the fine points of aerial combat. In the long English twilight, which lasts until 11 p.m. in the summer, airmen lazed around the stove-warmed Nissen huts, playing blackjack and cursing the conditions which kept them idle...
Apparently Russell was asked for a light by the two men, whom Cambridge police described as "young fellows," and as he was reaching for matches they hit him with a blackjack. His cries drove them away before they could search his pockets...