Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlled his rage, began thus: "There is nothing more curious in modern evolution than the effect of an enormous fortune rapidly made and the control of newspapers of your own. It goes to the head like wine, and you find attempts made outside journalism to dictate, to domineer to blackmail...
...haulage, then moved his lavatory down the street and established it opposite another café. But M. Castel-Benac made one tactical mistake. Having determined to rid his office of the gibbering and useless M. Topaze, he procured a farewell gift for that pedagog by gentle blackmail. It was the particular gleam which M. Topaze had long been following-a degree of Doctor of Moral Philosophy. And when he received it, the schoolmaster was transmogrified. A year later he had become a super-politician, beardless, monocled, fastidiously draped, who had gigantically dishonest deals as far as South America, had acquired...
...will have to proclaim his opinion of the cop. Numerous others, who were asleep and blind for years while crooked agents of the Watch and Ward Society were operating in Greater Boston grew hot with indignation when an agent did what he was paid to do without trying to blackmail the bookseller. Why are they now comatose...