Word: blackmailing
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...Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...suggestion is that someone blackmail Prof. Seymour and send him a black-hand note to the effect that he leave the blueprints of the House Plan under a certain elm at midnight or something will happen. Once the blueprints were out of the way, the undergraduates could do almost anything. --Yale News...
...Blackmail, Lion...
...Hermann Pattburg of your Aeronautics "Black Airmail" (TIME, Sept. 23) a Jack London fan that he should have used the same methods as J. L.'s hero of "Winged Blackmail...
...town girl, invited by reason of her convenient residence and morals, accuses a sophomore, falsely, of having gotten her with child. When she threatens blackmail, they scuffle. She falls, strikes her head against a fraternity andiron. Her opponent then hides the body in a closet and begins a futile, agonizing pantomime of ease. Brought to trial between the acts, he is acquitted. His brotherly friends prevent him from suicide, dispel his remorse...