Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After his friend Hector Stribling (Henry Stephenson) introduces him to Sarah Casenove (Irene Dunne) his condition improves. Evers and Sarah go back to London where she opens an antique shop and he wins a case or two. Then more troubles set in. Sinister Tono Casenove (Nils Asther) appears to blackmail Sarah. Stingy Mrs. Evers (Lorraine MacLean) refuses to give Gordon a divorce. Gossip that threatens to undo Evers' legal practice makes Sarah Casenove think that she must desert him. To top it all, Evers, with a war-bullet in his chest, discovers that he has only six more months...
...Tammen, Denver was in for it. For two decades the Denver Post did one incredible handspring after another, and opened a campaign for subscriptions and power which balked at no invasion of privacy or justice. Bonfils was shot at five times, and one lawyer whom he had attempted to blackmail put three bullets each into him and his confederate, but the Post went smashing on. Everyone knows the two famous bylines "Crime Never Pays" and "It is a Privilege to Live in Colorado," of which the first headed each account of the police court, the second every tale of distant...
...night before the big game to visit a girl whom he has known for several months. She reveals that she is married, and that her husband, who had some money on the game, would consider it a great favor if Fowler didn't play the next day, and would blackmail him if he did. Asserting his righteous scorn and little pugilistic ability, our hero breaks his hand, but is rescued by his friends before further damage can be done. During the game, handicapped by the pain in his hand, he fails to come up to the expectations of Western cohorts...
...Unfortunately the Chinese-language press has not, by and large, achieved a high level of development. Subsidy and blackmail are not infrequent features of Chinese journalism. Many of the acts and violence perpetrated against editors have been the direct results of actions difficult for the most enthusiastic advocate of press freedom to condone...
...STRANGE MURDER OF HATTON, K. C.-Herbert Adams-Lippincott ($2). An honest oldster, dead of a dagger in his eye, upsets a houseparty. Thereafter follow arson, blackmail and attempted murder...