Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McNamee, radio announcer, "talking reporter" for Universal Newsreel; by Mrs. Josephine Garrett McNamee; in Manhattan. They eloped in 1921 (by means of a ladder) after a romance which began when they sang together in a concert at Bronxville, N. Y. Announcer McNamee said the separation was not by mutual consent, did not know what the charges were...
...would be in the discretion of a Bishop or an ecclesiastical court which the new Canon proposes to establish. Also administered by Bishop or court would be annulment-the only means by which the Church would allow a marriage to be dissolved-on nine grounds: 1) Lack of free consent; 2) Failure of either party to have reached the age of puberty; 3) Impotence of either party; 4) Mental deficiency of either party sufficient to prevent the exercise of intelligent choice; 5) Insanity of either party; 6) Consanguinity (whole or half blood); 7) Misrepresented or mistaken identity; 8) Venereal disease...
Since the CRIMSON has taken the lead in demanding that Harvard recognize its graduates who died for the enemy, may I suggest that it consent to act as Treasurer of this fund, and that in order to preserve the democracy of the memorial, contributions be limited to one dollar or less. Sincerely, Eugene Du Bois...
...roost, for Arthur had a didactic turn of mind. Expert Ross joined the Army to train its Signal Corps pigeons. When he was transferred from Philadelphia to Fort Monmouth, N. J., it took Arthur some two years to get used to the change. But when he did consent to rule the Fort Monmouth roost, Arthur astounded the signalmen. He would help them teach a flock of young "squeakers" to home, by swooping down and herding the novices...
Quebec in those days was not an old-world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes...