Word: pretext
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Charles S. Childs, assistant superintendent of the Cambridge Cemetery, while driving from the city hall towards the cemetery with about $600 to pay off the men, was assaulted and shot by two men Saturday morning on Mt. Auburn street, who stopped him on the pretext of getting some rope to mend the harness of their team, which they claimed was broken. Mr. Child's condition was very critical Saturday night and he suffered great pain. His condition improved materially yesterday and strong hopes are entertained of his recovery. He passed a comfortable night last night. The assassins made off with...
...induce them to do so. On about the fifteenth of July the New York papers contained an account of a game between the Metropolitans and the Yales of the day previous. Thus it appears that Yale is willing to break agreement with a dreaded rival on the slightest pretext but afterwards accepts engagements with professional nines for no apparent reason...
...coal. He contends that the whole party are liable. It is becoming altogether too common a practice to be longer countenanced by college men for careless brutality, and the infliction of personal indignities, to be resorted to by unruly students with perfect freedom from impunity under the specious pretext of "hazing." This condition of affairs must be reformed by some means or other. If college students themselves do not see and appreciate this fact, and if there is no other way to convince them of it, measures as stern and decisive as the summary arrest and punishment of all offenders...
...waited patiently for the appearance of the October number of the Academica, but it contained nothing that could afford him a pretext for expelling the editors. He then issued a number of the University, which purported to be the official sheet, and provoked the editors of the Academica, who fell into the trap prepared for them, and published in the December number of the Academica certain comments on the administration of the university, as represented by Vickers. In a secret session of the faculty, without affording the editors the opportunity of a full and impartial defence, Vickers succeeded in having...