Word: pretexting
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...rascal, stood with arms akimbo and a smile on his dimpled face, listening to his third sentence to Federal prison. For duping rich Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, estranged wife of the former publisher of the Washington Post and publisher of the Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $100,000 on the pretext that he could find the Lindbergh baby (TIME, May 16), Rascal Means was given ten years imprisonment. For duping her out of $4,000 expense money he got another five years. The terms were not to run concurrently...
...charge on which he was apprehended was, however, startling : that he had bilked affluent Mrs. Evelyn Walsh McLean, owner of the Hope Diamond, estranged wife of the publisher of the Washington Post and Cincinnati Enquirer, out of $106,000 on the pretext that he could help her find the Lindbergh baby...
Gigli's fellow-artists vigorously took up the rebuttal. Thirty-two signed a statement: "No serious pretext can explain such a behavior. . . . Mr. Gigli has during the current season profited from the sacrifice which we have made to keep the Metropolitan going and is again trying to get his full salary at the expense of all of us who are reducing our respective salaries. We protest against Mr. Gigli's lack of co-operation and esprit de corps...
...thousand miners are blacklisted. Local officials regard themselves as the agents of the mine owners; local clergy uphold the violence and the starving-out tactics of the operators, and only bloodshed could come out of this starvation. The Press has proved "traitor" to the working class, while "under the pretext of combating communism, the mine-owners are giving Communism every support and justification...
...False Pretext...