Word: hasten
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...something that sounded like, "Your compliance has been formal rather than substantial." The upshot of the matter was that Señor Edwards announced his intention of shortly reading a lengthy address to the Commissioners, and implied that Chile would appeal to Arbiter Coolidge if the Commission did not hasten the plebiscite...
Insulted, Mr. Cohen replied shrilly, intimating that the streets were free for those who cared to hasten or to tarry; adding further that he was not to be trifled with by a person of inferior coloring. He rose from his safe seat behind the steering wheel and thrust his sallow, ratlike countenance as close as possible to that of Mr. Johnson...
...order that I might have a clear conception of my task in Syria, it was essential that the boundaries should be settled with neighboring territories. In our discussion we have agreed to hasten the delimitation of frontiers be tween Syria on the one hand and the British mandated territories of Palestine and Irak on the other. I also hope to go to Angora at an early date to settle the Syrian boundaries with Turkey. . . . My policy is to work with the League of Nations and to bring to Syria full independence at the soonest possible moment...
...Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic, though I hasten to add that this was the effect of my wife's curiosity...
...oorah" cheer, vitiating as was its effect on the matutinal appetite, did not--alas!--arrive entirely as a bolt from the blue.. To anticipate something of the kind as the inevitable result of a cheer-leading "competition," did not require the gift of second sight. Let me hasten to protest that I do not herein wish to imply any criticism of the gentlemen who, as victims of the said competition, have been drafted to their ridiculous duty. Their services need only have been impressed for the bedevilment of Harvard cheering, and they are assuming that implied obligation seriously...