Word: assenting
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...Lifted disdainful eyebrows as the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod shepherded before the bar of the Lords many an M. P. - several grumbling audibly at their obligation to hear read His Majesty's assent to the bill...
...difficulty in the way of securing the assent of each signatory by direct exchange of notes, as provided for by the Senate. It would seem to me to be a matter of regret if the council of the' League should do anything to create the impression that there are substantial difficulties...
More hastily, Senator Metcalf nodded a relieved assent. The Vice President struck the untraditional telegram from the record. Senator Reed proceeded leisurely to teach Senator Metcalf that, before sending to the clerk such a letter or telegram, the recipient confers with the Senator attacked?to teach him other lessons in the traditions of a most traditional Chamber...
...Treaty of Versailles. It is a fact. It is what it is. If I had been called upon to frame it, I would say could have done no better. . But I can hear again that tragic dialog which took place when the Chamber was called on to give assent to that treaty! Anxiety for our security occupied every mind. We questioned it. M. Clemenceau was asked would this Anglo-American guarantee hold, for which we had abandoned our natural frontier. We were reminded of certain incidents which showed that, perhaps, America would not, after all, give its approval...
...President gave his formal assent to the presentation by Secretary Wilbur of the Navy Cross to Captain George Fried, a Naval Reservist, who was in command of the U. S. liner Roosevelt which rescued the crew of the British freighter Antinoe...