Word: pretexting
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...What is demanded,'' added Princeton's Philosopher Jacques Maritain, a Roman Catholic, "is to get rid of those absurd prejudices which can be traced back to the Renaissance and which banish from the blessed land of educational curricula a number of authors and matters under the pretext that they are specifically religious, and therefore not 'classical,' though they matter essentially to the common treasure of culture. The writings of the Fathers of the Church are an integral part of the humanities as well as, or more than, those of the Elizabethan dramatists." The traditional classical...
...appreciated his work so much that he was exempted from paying city taxes. His Adoration, painted for the local church, was so successful that crowds flocked to see it, and many bid to buy it, until finally the church decreed that "the painting shall never be removed, under any pretext whatsoever, and under penalty of a 500 ducats fine...
...introduces such British supporting players as a callow youth who wants to be "worldlywise like Mr. Somerset Maugham," bounding Newspaperman Wyvell Speen, and a goonlike consular official called Waldo Grimbley, who is delighted when Elaine Brent lands in jail, because he thinks her imprisonment may be used as "a pretext for taking over the bloody country again...
...treatment for his rheumatic right arm: a soothing bath of spring water at Aix-les-Bains. "I began to take the baths and found them most enjoyable," he wrote, "so enjoyable that if I hadn't had a disease I would have borrowed one just to have a pretext for going...
...legislators rallied around an amendment taking contempt punishment out of the judge's hands and putting it in the hands of a jury. The trial-by-jury cry, a ,pretty good rabble-rouser, stirred up so much emotion that many a conservative Midwest Republican found it a handy pretext for joining Southern Democrats on the amendment...