Word: hastening
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...could go on at some length, expanding on the virtues of TIME, but, believing that brevity is the soul of wit, I hesitate to lay myself open to charges of being a halfwit, therefore I hasten to the end, adding only that I am convalescing after an attack of encephalitic paralysis and TIME has materially aided in keeping my disposition bearable for my family...
...alas! Imperial Heaven ... observe these things! ... I, the Minister of Heaven . . . am scorched with grief. . . . I am inexpressibly grieved, alarmed and frightened. . . . Knocking my head upon the Earth, I pray Imperial Heaven to hasten and confer gracious deliverance, a speedy and divinely beneficial rain...
...justice to the "big brother" let me hasten to add that there were exceptions to this wholesale disappointment. Girls getting $12 or less per week are reported to have received a half week's extra pay to gladden their Christmas. This munificent consideration was extended to all $12 employes (it is reported) except one girl in the insurance department who was consoled by the explanation that the insurance department was not really a part of the paper and was at most only temporary. . . . A. LOWEMANN...
International. John Howard Lawson wrote what a lot of people consider the best play in the modern manner yet written by a U. S. playwright. It was Processional produced some seasons ago with none too conspicuous magnetism by the Theatre Guild. Since then those who were stirred by it hasten to see Mr. Lawson's latest. In this one they were disappointed; Mr. Lawson's modern manner has sent his play flying in every direction at once. It is in 21 scenes, some of them in Thibet. It purports to be a satire on modern life. There are capitalists, lamas...
...impossible to hasten the unity of all Christians except by obtaining the return of the dissidents to the single Church of Christ from which they one day unhappily broke away. . . . May they return to the common Father. He, forgetting the hard words they have hurled against the Apostolic See, will receive them with a heart of affection. . . . If they return, it must not be with the idea or hope that the Church of the Living God, the pillar and support of truth, will scrap its integrity and faith or tolerate their errors...