Word: assenting
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...Conte di Savoia, ploughing across the Atlantic toward New York last fortnight, small John Kennedy, 5˝, one day met a nice old priest. He admired the priest's pretty hat, his shiny jewelry. Could he play with them? The kindly-faced priest smiled assent. Small John Kennedy donned the red cloth biretta of a cardinal, jingled a golden cross on a massive chain, slipped a cameo ring on his big finger. Then John's father, New York's Representative Martin J. Kennedy, devout Roman Catholic, protested such impious play. But Alexis Henry Cardinal Lepicier said: "Why not? Nothing is more...
...ceremony as simple and short as that of 20 years ago effected the divorce of Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, 43, from Senator William Gibbs McAdoo, 70. At 3:48 p. m. Mrs. McAdoo's complaint was legally filed. A few minutes later Judge Allan B. Campbell heard her assent to its charges: 1) Senator McAdoo spent most of his time in Washington, where her health would not permit her to live; 2) his interests were political, hers artistic; 3) because of this incompatibility she had suffered mental cruelty. Her doctor confirmed the state of her health and her mental suffering...
...Monday's violence was sporadic, minor?a few bricks heaved, a few trucks upset, some creosote bombs tossed through windows in Oakland. By nightfall Harry Bridges was easing his grip. On order of the Public Utilities Commission municipal streetcars began running again, with the strike committee's full assent. Picket lines made no move to stop police-guarded food trucks coming in from nearby farms. The strike committee announced full resumption of bakery, milk and ice deliveries. Citizens heard that the committee was planning to let all restaurants open next morning. But all liquor sales were banned "during the emergency...
...Berlin the Nazi Press all but screamed despair. "This system of treaties," said the Berliner Tageblatt, "means the attainment of French dominance over Europe with the assent of Russia and Poland." In his personal newsorgan the No. 2 Nazi, General Hermann Wilhelm Göring, raged against "This fad for pacts, this pactomania!" In another groaning outburst the Berliner Tageblatt declared: "Thus France has arrived at last where Clemenceau wanted...
...before the hearing. Boldest opponent of the proposed changes was Publisher Jerome D. Barnum of the Syracuse (N. Y. ) Post-Standard who, like many another publisher, performs extensive social welfare work among his delivery boys. Snapped he: "I shall certainly oppose the modifications at the hearing and refuse to assent to them if NRA seeks to enforce them on publishers. Of course by the specific terms of our code no modification thereof can be made effective against the publisher who refused to accept it." Ready to meet all comers at the hearing was the National Child Labor Committee which argued...