Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wash herself. . . . So she said to her maids: Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard. . . . When the maids were gone forth the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: . . . Nobody seeth us and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee. . . . Susanna said: ... It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight of the Lord. . . . And the elders...
...gave herself up at tiny Wentworth, N. C., 40 mi. from Winston-Salem. On hand to greet her were her attorneys and the State solicitor. She wore a heavy black veil, was accompanied by a nurse. Taken into court, Mrs. Reynolds was released on $25.000 bail with the consent of the prosecutor...
...Consent (RKO) is a serious cinema of college love. Richard Cromwell quarrels with his sweetheart, Dorothy Wilson, later apologizes and is forgiven, proposes marriage. She tells him to finish his remaining two years in college. After a spinster teacher tells her how she once was similarly magnanimous, Dorothy changes her mind, telephones Richard. But he is compromising himself with a waitress, Arlene Judge, who presently gets her father and demands marriage. Dorothy Wilson consoles herself by a ride in the snappy car of Eric Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson...
...German masses, on the other hand, have so often heard their leaders tell the world that Germany can pay nothing that Chancellor von Papen's consent to pay something was sullenly received. In Paris vehement Deputies and Senators vied with each other in telling correspondents that the U. S. can expect to receive from France payments proportional to what France receives from Germany and not one sou more. In Rome the official Giornale d'Italia said: "Lausanne was the beginning, not the end. . . . The fate of the Lausanne agreement depends on the attitude of the United States, from...
...which they even manage to spend an innocent night together in an empty house; after Halcyon turns her hand to the drama, and Eden makes a name acting in her hopeless play, the two children, for all their frequent scrapping, come to marriageable terms. Wringing a grudging consent from their parents they set off on their honeymoon. Their trials and tribulations on their wedding night, their subsequent reconciliation in a hall-bedroom not included in the bridal suite, must have their hotel-proprietor smiling...