Word: blackmailer
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...every English crime fancier recalls, the legs, though obviously male, had been femininely peroxided and powdered. Suspicion has been strong that the murdered man had been living with some other man who eventually slew him when threatened with blackmail. Last week Pathologist Spilsbury did much to dash this theory by discovering on the male Brentford Torso three long strands of hair unquestionably female. At the coroner's inquest, Sir Bernard, close-lipped as usual, dropped a quiet hint that he now believes the Waterloo-Brentford man, pieced together by his freckles last week, was murdered by a woman...
...lead to a happy ending. And death stalks the pages of Mrs. Norris' novels as grimly and certainly as in a Greek tragedy. Two have to die in Woman in Love. First Tamara's seducer, Mayne Mallory, kills his wife. Then, after he has tried to blackmail Tamara's George, a lawyer, into taking his case through the courts, Mayne gets his own come-uppance when his victim's husband knocks him down, inadvertently killing him. Jail for manslaughter separates George and Tarn for a period, but California Justice appears more kind to Mrs. Norris...
Pernod Fils refused to pay the blackmail demands and the said publisher commenced his campaign in print. Due to War hysteria and the general desire to do anything to win the War, to say nothing of the Frenchman's morbid fear of such a terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could...
...Council seat. Failing that she may refuse to join. Just now Poland has a semi-permanent Council seat. She threatened last week to demand a permanent seat for herself if Russia gets one. Since the Council can only act by unanimous vote, Poland was thus in a position to blackmail the Council, seemed strongly disposed to make the attempt. In March 1926 Brazil tried similar blackmail when Germany was proposed, deadlocked the Council and finally resigned from the League...
...introduces a double murder and a man hunt. A railroad tycoon (Warren William), neglected by his ambitious wife (Mary Astor), takes up with an honest little burlesque actress (Ginger Rogers). One night he calls on her just as her oldtime lover is attempting to force her to begin blackmail. Of the two shootings which follow, William performs one in obvious self-defense. After his quiet departure, the job looks like murder and suicide to all but one policeman. A burly flatfoot (Sidney Toler), whom William had caused to be demoted, has his suspicions. But William's power is such...