Word: hastening
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...before the case is called have become an abomination. The dan- gerous initiative that newspapers have taken in judging and convicting out of court is journalistic lynch law. It is mob murder or mob ac- quittal in all but the overt act. It is mob appeal. Prosecuting attorneys now hasten to the papers with their theories and confessions. Defense attorneys do the same. Neither dare do otherwise. Half wit juries or prejudiced juries are the inevitable result...
This tendency toward new models is only a phase of the severe competition in the business. One company announces a novel appliance or feature. If it gains public favor, all the other companies hasten to adopt it too. Once a new model is finished and on the market, each concern starts planning feverishly on its next model. Hence, the industry as a whole is very "spotty"; while one large Detroit company has virtually shut down, another is planning for greatly increased production...
...feature, chief interest in Roscoe W. Brink's play is atmospheric, its locale being laid in an out-of-the-way community in the Catskills where piety is the main business and every other interest subsidiary. Here, in 1870, the elders, on finding a girl has been misled, hasten her marriage to the son of the village leader, sure that this will hush up everything...
Premier Macdonald's prompt action in recognizing Russia was attributed by some to a hope that it might hasten the advent of parliamentary institutions in Russia. This is not to be gainsaid, but the prime reason for recognition was one of economic expediency...
...letting the plot unfold itself as it saw fit. That was the way with Henry Williams, alias "The Wreck". When he started out in his flivver, he just went nowhere in particular wherever chance took him. And Sally, being his sole passenger (and a very delightful one, too, I hasten to add). Sally, having really very little choice in the matter, just went with him. And the sheriff, well, he lost out all around, but then I guess he deserved...