Word: blackmailer
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...This is not an ordinary act of suicide." Pearson said Porter had told him that certain people had been trying to force him to return to Scotland (he was a British subject), because "apparently some people believed he knew too much." Porter had told some friends of attempts to blackmail him, and he was sure he was being shadowed. Other friends of Porter said he had booked passage on the liner Media, but had canceled it on sailing day, Aug. 6. They said he would have been a star witness in Countess Gizycka's suit to break the will...
Above all, the Russians had so far failed in their chief objective-which was simply to blackmail the West into "saving" Berlin by tossing Western Germany to the wolves. Western Germany, whose industrial potential was the most important bulwark standing between Europe and Communism, was going strong...
...forever sterile." Artie, who is quoted by Kathleen's lawyer as stating that "any woman who has enough money and still expects her husband to support her is nothing but a high-class prostitute," also went into the financial side of his marriage: "She is trying to blackmail me. I know the defendant to be a money-mad extortioner." And anyway, he added, neither of their Mexican divorces was legal, and so he figures that he is still the lawful wedded husband...
...Evil My Love (Paramount) is only as evil as the Johnston Office will bear. A dashing, crooked artist (Ray Milland) so deeply fascinates a missionary's late-Victorian widow (Ann Todd) that she becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow...
Whose Advice? When Labor Lord Addison offered a weak compromise, Lord Salisbury rejected it in anger: "Unworthy of consideration . . . the government has tried to blackmail this House." They voted - 177-to-81 against the bill...