Word: hastening
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When there are momentarily no women in the smoking room, men hasten to ease themselves of what they feel are appropriate stories. No reputable modern publisher has yet had the nerve to sponsor a really bawdy anthology, but with the weekly encouragement of such smartcharts as the New Yorker, such pseudo-smart-charts as Ballyhoo, smart publishers are beginning to see that anything (within reason) goes. The Bedroom Companion, or A Cold Night's Entertainment: Being A CURE for Man's Neuroses, A SOP to His FRUSTRATIONS, A Nightcap of Forbidden Ballads, Discerning PICTURES, Scurrilous Essays, in fine...
When Mrs. Clouser saw the stories about her husband, she blew up. Next day press association wires clicked out a statement by Dr. Clouser that he had been "misquoted." His denial: "I never gave an overdose of any drug and I never willingly did anything in my power to hasten death for any sick person, regardless of his condition or wishes...
...Immortality." finds himself the dazed recipient of commissions on a $5,000,000 policy. He makes friends with the insured, teaches him handball and health rules, brings him back from Bermuda bursting with bounce and sparkle. The schemers call in a hussy whose amorous ministrations they hope will hasten their employer's collapse. Thence the comedy builds up to an unerring anticlimax. The employer marries the hussy...
Dean Pound's recommendation is sound and progressive, fully in tune with the changing times. The faculties of the college and the law school should give the plan the most serious consideration, for, once concluded, it cannot fail to hasten the trend towards a closer integration of the last years in school and the first years in college...
...hasten to send you my subscription to the CRIMSON. Every morning after breakfast I shall read it carefully in the hope of finding something that will help me to understand the mysterious recesses in the minds of my boys...