Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Stalin opened and closed the last Congress of the Comintern. . . . We have proof that Minkin* was organizing a revolution in Uruguay for next February or March." In Moscow the official Bolshevik news-organ, Izvestia, promptly announced to the world proletariat that Uruguay had attempted to ''blackmail" Russia by threatening to break off relations unless Montevideo was given a large Soviet order for Uruguayan cheese. This was supposed to have stung Dictator Stalin into assuming a defiant attitude-i. e.. Millions for Revolution but Not One Cent For Cheese. Neutral observers considered it more likely, if cheese...
...continuity or theme. The only discrepancy that is really noticeable is the complication between Carton and Barsad which becomes necessary because a double for Coleman could not be found to take the part of Charles Darnay and the identification of Darnay had to be frustrated by a species of blackmail over the witness, instead of the genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens knew that cheating at dice would be a great discredit to the witness...
Stella Parrish is the story of a great actress forced to flee into seclusion by the threat of blackmail. Her past is discovered and spread before the world by an inquisitive but charming news-bound. After enduring untold suffering, and sinking so low as burlesque in her frantic attempt to make money, she is finally called back to her rightful place on the stage, and all is bright in the warm rays of the adulation of her adoring public...
...Barber of Seville made him famed. But he was still poor, and as a secret agent of Louis XVI, authorized to prevent the publication of damaging pamphlets, he printed others, then paid himself for destroying them. He was arrested by Queen Maria Theresa of Austria when he tried to blackmail her with a pamphlet relating that her daughter, Marie Antoinette, would bear no legitimate children. His intrigues became historically important when he helped finance the American Revolution. Although he was motivated primarily by hostility to England and a desire to defend French colonies, he committed the French Government to assist...
...Religion, English Constitutional History and any subject throughout the entire sweep of English Literature, novels, plays essays, etcetera." It is hardly possible that this most credite creature in view of all else he has mastered, should be a stranger to the intricate ramifications of the highly specialized art of blackmail...