Word: extortionist
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Police Commissioner Wilcox, a recent Bowles appointee, retorted that Announcer Buckley was a known extortionist and racketeer, killed by his kind. Investigation showed that the announcer kept three hotel apartments besides his home with his wife, and that his secretary had revealed Buckley's long fear of being ''put on the spot." He had carried a gun for weeks, guarded his movements, chosen his taxis with care...
...brained chansons which no one will be able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...