Word: pretexting
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...Douglas had been in the White House in 1861, he would have deprived the South of a pretext to secede, would have held the Union together, would have averted the Civil...
...bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a jury, has sent a woman to the electric chair for killing a man. At the execution, Midnight, while newshawks are invading his home on one pretext or another to catch his reaction, the florist's daughter (Linda Watkins of June Moon) staggers in with a revolver and the tale that she has just shot her lover...
...House might well have been impelled long since, by sheer curiosity, to have a look at such a national phenomenon as Chicago's Alphonse ("Scarface") Capone has been allowed to become. It would have been distinctly Rooseveltian to command Capone's presence in Washington on any old pretext and settle his hash out of hand...
...picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...
Author Wister had told how President Roosevelt a quarter-century ago visited an old southern city (his mother, Martha Bulloch, came from a fine old Georgia family) where an ambitious hostess contrary to the orders of the reception committee, persuaded him to enter her home on the pretext that he would thereby give profound pleasure to an old family slave on the brink of death. The President, all innocent of the trick, was her brief guest, took a cup of tea from an ancient Negro servant. Claiming that the family of the President's hostess had owned no slaves...