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Word: blackmailer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...famous beauty of questionable reputation is found strangled, clutching three black clues. Lovers' quarrel? Blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...remodeled dwelling of many apartments) and checking up on the names in the mail boxes. There he found my own card in one box, and in another box the card of S. S. Van Dine. He twitted me gloatingly with the discovery, and proceeded to levy the most outrageous blackmail-which I paid. (I have since removed Mr. Van Dine's card from the mail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 10, 1928 | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...understand . . . that the Governor [Alfred E. Smith] in casting those votes against those reform bills [touching gambling and the facilities for prostitution] might honestly have felt that the bills were unconstitutional or were not enforceable or infringed on personal liberty or encouraged police blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: White-Washed | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

INTERFERENCE?In which a girl is given prussic acid as an antidote for blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Best Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 14, 1927 | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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