Word: blackmailed
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...call the verdict justified. But it causes thought. The accused man confessed the killing. He did not go on the stand, or offer any defense, produce a single witness. Except a speech by his lawyer, who said Ward killed, in self-defense, a man attempting to blackmail him, he declined to give further information on the ground that it would disgrace his family. And the jury acquitted...
...Blackmail for repressing the memoirs of a morganatic wife. Also the memoirs...
...Kaynes are early victims of their generation. Rufus becomes involved in a tangle of bad appearances, bad investments, blackmail, disgrace, resulting in his financial ruin...
Finding out about the somewhat commercialized romance between Gustave Morand and Rosette Pompon, ex-dancer, the young man who has been vainly assaulting Gustave's wife's marital stability pretends to be Rosette's ex-dancing partner. By dint of robust blackmail, he persuades the perturbed husband to take him into his home as secretary, thus facilitating his campaign. The resultant complications are judiciously distributed through two acts...
...fame of Dean Briggs' anecdote is now extended well beyond college circles. In a recent issue of the "Globe" the leading editorial quoted it (with the original modest fifty dollar stakes now swollen to several hundred!) as the "classic example of the most efficient way to nip threatened blackmail in the bud. The little story appears to be as susceptible of wide application as many an ancient parable. Harvard is to be congratulated for having presided at its birth...