Word: assent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Emperor Power of Trinity sat drawnfaced with his two pet dogs frisking about his feet as Fat Chaps & Lean Chaps concluded their work and Ethiopia's elaborate Seal of The Conquering Lion of Judah was affixed in token of His Majesty's assent. What had he done? It all depended on who Fat Chaps' backers really are. Every undeveloped country is fair game for plausible promoters who go about hinting that they represent du Pont, or De Beers or Krupp. Last week Francis M. Rickett said that his backers were Standard Oil and British capitalists whom...
...Received the King's assent in traditional Norman French "Le Roy le veult!" ("The King so wills!") to the bill giving India a new federal form and Constitution, this act being the longest ever passed by Parliament (TIME...
...Bruno Mussolini, 17, the youngest regularly licensed air pilots in Italy, called on their father as Minister of Aviation, to enlist for fighting service against Ethiopia. Fascists present said that Il Duce received his sons with a visible effort to master his feelings as a father, grunted a wordless assent to their request, dashed his signature upon their papers of enlistment...
...other hand, Britain sanctions with Germany treaty violations presumably repugnant to all good league members!" exclaimed Il Duce's family newsorgan Il Popolo d'Italia. It added sarcastically: "Maybe, some day, the British-German accord will be pompously registered with the League, presumably, too, with the assent of the Delegate of Ethiopia...
...shave in, our professor, who stands six feet seven inches in his stocking feet and carries some three hundred and nine pounds, made bold to ask the archbishop if he could take a bath. Through gratitude or fear of this man mountain, the archbishop murmured a Greek Orthodox assent through his archiepiscopal beard...