Word: consented
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...school did not seem to be popcorn. To remedy this the lectures were discolored open to Seniors who had obtained the consent of their parents, "and not a few," says Mr. Samuel F. Batchelor 93 in his "Bits of Harvard History," with the morbid curiosity of youth failed themselves of this gruesome privege...
...arrived: Mr. Woodlock's appointment had not been confirmed. Mr. Coolidge sent in his name to the special session of the new Congress. Administration Senators asked unanimous consent. A few Southerners refused, declaring they would talk the session into summer rather than confirm the appointment. The Senate adjourned without a vote...
...Major Significance. The Constitution is a politically sacred law and the Constitution says that the President shall have the power to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the executive officers of the Government.? So what the Senate did was entirely legal and done by authority long vested in it. But the proceeding was unique, almost as unique as the following hypothetical proceeding (equally legal, and by authority of equally long standing) would have been had it taken place...
...Warren nomination, saying the President had been right in that. Senator Stanchfield of Oregon, with a pile of manuscript, began to read a speech about "homeowning banks," but he skipped a good bit of it. Cole Blease, the new and bumptious Senator from South Carolina, asked unanimous consent to insert remarks in the record. Mr. Curtis objected, so Mr. Blease began to read his remarks, telling why he did not think Democrats should let Republicans make Committee assignments because the latter have a majority. He read for a few minutes and then tossed his speech to the official reporters...
...animals, thrift and purity. Each is furnished with a scorecard on which are printed such exercises as: "I respected the rights of animals. I was loyal to my country's laws. I was not 1) vulgar 2) profane, in speech. I did not take anything without the owner's consent. I tried to do all the health chores," etc. At the end of each day, the knight marks with a check those rules which, after honest self-examination, he finds he has not broken, thus training himself to be more and more like an orderly modern citizen, less and less...