Word: headlong
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...wizened Willie Howard goes most of the credit for the show's fun. Rushing headlong through scene after scene, he is successively and inexhaustibly a plumber, a French general, a Hungarian doctor, a tabloid editor, a victim to his lawyer ("For Gott sake gif him de two dollas!"), a mustachioed French lover crawling over a blonde in a gondola...
...come out stronger than ever she was before, and better prepared to enter afresh upon her great career of enterprise. What would happen if no cotton was furnished for three years? I will not stop to depict what every one can imagine, but this is certain: England would topple headlong and carry the whole civilized world with her, save the South. No, you dare not make war on cotton. No power on earth dares to make war upon it. Cotton is King...
...premises. Three times a day, his shepherd dog, Rolf, by his side, he tramped the gardens in back for a constitutional, the rest of the time spent with his ministers, signing decrees that Chancellor Brüning suggested. They closed the stock exchanges and for two days, to avert headlong panic, all the banks. They selected a Federal Commissioner of Finance or "Money Tsar" before reopening the banks partially, to pay salaries, wages and taxes only. (Unemployed persons not on the dole were allowed to withdraw $12 each.) A rousing, purely Hindenburg proclamation called upon the people to be calm...
Like Romans under Caligula, Mexicans at San Luis Potosi last week flocked to their arena to witness gory battle between a lion and a bull. Headlong the bull charged; swiftly the lion struck, clawed down its adversary's face, threw it flat, stalked proudly away...
...prediction as to the final outcome must be, at best, speculative and qualified. Mr. Muir has, however, given a very orderly and concise review of the situation both before and after the war. He has outlined the various forces such as Nationalism and Imperialism which rushed the world headlong into the crisis of 1914 in a clear and convincing fashion. And he has gone on to show the several trends that are present in Europe today, whether for good or for ill he does not profess to know...