Word: consented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against Gladstonian reforms she raged as follows in a letter to Lord Granville, Gladstone's Foreign Secretary: "The Queen herself can never have any confidence in the men who encourage reform for the sake of alteration and pulling down what exists. . . . A democratic monarchy she will not consent to belong to . . . Others must be found if that...
...father and immediately sets about marrying the opera singer's offspring. To Sir Basil's further chagrin, the U. S. illegitimate, whose coy and daring cajoleries have made her his "favorite little bastard," falls in love with his solicitor; when she has achieved her father's consent to their marriage, she calls the curtain down by prettily observing: "Well, anyway, it will be the first wedding in this family...
While Cardinal Gasparri held out for and secured to the Papacy the technical right of appointment, Dr. Benes was able to cover this trump with the proviso that Papal appointments in Czechoslovakia shall be made only with the consent of the State...
...wasn't so very long ago that a certain actor wandered about New York City looking for a clergyman who would consent to honor Joseph Jefferson, the Rip Van Winkle of a thousand stage productions, with the funeral rites of the Church. In at least two large cities of the East, there is no baseball played on Sunday, because the people remember the Fourth Commandment. In some places small loys still scatter and leave their marbles when the village parson walks down the street on Sunday afternoon...
From Paris came news which all Germans scanned eagerly. They learned that the Agent General of Reparations, Mr. Seymour Parker Gilbert, called last week upon Premier Raymond Poincaré of France, and drew from him an admission that the French Government might soon consent to some scaling down of German reparations and to their fixation at a definite total sum. This last point was strongly urged by Agent Gilbert in his most recent report (TIME, Dec. 26), and, last week, he discussed it thoroughly not. only with M. Poincaré at Paris, but next day in Brussels with the Belgian...