Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sickness?" The philosophic Washington Post considered Warde "a modern Faust" who "did not begrudge payment for the brief period of power granted him." The New York Herald Tribune, ever Republican, saw in Warde striking proof "that civilization is not the product of external rules and compulsions but of individual consent." To Hearst's New York Mirror, the helplessness of the people who watched Warde symbolized ''the numbed futility of the millions of peoples all over the world who pray for a return to sanity...
...months in prison. Learning that the girl was with child, Dr. Bourne decided that the age of the victim, whose name by agreement was left undisclosed last week, and the nature of the attack offered better than ordinary grounds for exhibiting the limitations of the law. Accordingly, with the consent of the girl's parents, he performed the operation seven weeks ago, then asked Scotland Yard to arrest...
...prevent a recurrence of the situation that brought about the 1934 Black inquiry, when the Errett Cord interests half-cornered the airmail subsidy of $16.500.000, holding 13 of 26 contracts through mergers and consolidations, the Act forbids mergers, interlocked directorates and subleasing of carrier contracts without consent of the authority...
...CONSENT-Norman Lindsay- Farrar & Rinehart...
...three men were soon at each other's throats, each knew himself preferred, and as for the lady, nobody knew what she thought. Illustrating this story with his vigorous sketches, Author Lindsay managed to keep its satire good-natured without dulling its edge. Last week, in Age of Consent, he repeated his performance with another tale of a cautious lover and a willing lady. With several characters dead ringers for those of the earlier book, it might have seemed like too much repetition were it not that his story gets franker and funnier every time he tells...