blackjack

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And now that tradition has been blackjacked and thrown into a corner, these innovators are licensed to peddle their synthetic culture to the universities, colleges and preparatory schools.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among the speakers at the public session were: John F. Hylan, Mayor of New York: " The public has been sandbagged and blackjacked both ways, coming and going, by the railroads."

From Time Magazine Archive

But what wing-collared, high-principled Director of the Bank of Scotland ever gagged or blackjacked anybody?

From Time Magazine Archive

"They said," Mixley remarked to the other, "that the chief was politically dead after he had blackjacked the organisation; maybe he was—maybe he is, but he fights all right."

From The Red Mouse by Osborne, William Hamilton

Reimbursing the prospectors and small operators who were blackjacked out of their holdings by our super-corporation.

From Medal of Honor by Bernklau