Word: pretexts
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...question of decency in dress, how often do people try to secure the complicity of doctors in order that a veto against indecent dress should not apply? Many other things gain vogue under medical pretext which would have disastrous consequences if they got a foothold among sound medical practitioners, such as things concerning conjugal life and sexual relationships, offenses against maternity, and therapeutic abortion...
...Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering this enemy of their oligarchy. The narrator is one John, the Crossbowman, Swabian body-servant of the King...
After courteously asking the bootleggers to make themselves comfortable, he found some pretext to call a roommate into his bedroom. They emerged a moment later, their hip-pockets bulging with the giant...
...arrears on any of her payments. They also claim that the republic's embarrassing financial position had been brought about by the bank and the railroad. They insist that the National City Bank was behind these two and had done everything in its power to bring about a pretext for American intervention, feeling that its interest would be furthered by American intervention, and hence not at all averse to any plausible excuse for forcing the hand of the State Department...
Although an excellent method for rigid enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment and probably the only one approximating any degree of success, wholesale killings on a slight pretext leave the majority of thoughtful citizens cold. Major punishment meted out for minor infringements has never enjoyed a wide degree, of appeal. In view of the rather disagreeable incidents that Prohibition has foisted on the attention of the American public during the last decade, there is a considerable amount of justice in the fact that the noble experiment is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a plentitude of dramatic, if somewhat disturbing pyrotechnics...