Word: hastener
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Baron Byng was expected, as a matter of course, to call Mr. King to the Premiership. Interest quickened as to whether "the Premier-elect" could form his Cabinet soon enough to hasten from Ottawa to London in time for the Imperial Conference in October...
Suddenly came a wire from Athens. Moody, impulsive, Dictator-President Pangalos ordered Odysseus to hasten with his bride to London, there to assume the duties of an attaché at the Greek Legation...
...last night. The Metropolitan Company will employ a gasoline driven ice-cutter in an attempt to break up the ice, and clear the river for the crews. The cutting will be done above the Newell Boat House which will afford the University rowers a fairly long course and will hasten the breaking up of the ice further down the river...
...lover was the Earl of Bothwell, recently married and known to have been implicated in her husband's murder. He was broad of shoulder, stout of limb, shaggy, stern, a hawk-headed man. To yield to this passion was fatal; but she yielded, conniving in her own abduction to hasten the marriage. Sir James Melville puts it bluntly: "The queen could not but marry him, seeing that he had ravished...
Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, was anxious to get it passed speedily. He managed to have the Senate start work at 11:00 a. m. instead of at noon, but that did not hasten matters appreciably. He then said that if action did not rapidly speed up he would bring about 12-hour sessions, from 11 a. m. to 11 p. m., with no recess for supper...