Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Huston was vociforous in his praise of Maxwell Anderson, claiming, "With the possible exception of Eugene O'Neill, Anderson shows more genius in handling his script than any other play-wright. An actor can't rush through his lines the way he can with other play-wrights. Each speech must be digested and presented so that the audience can grasp every word...
...himself, has kept discreetly quiet, content to disregard the bomb-planting of his old cronies so long as they did not plant any under him. Last week he received a letter threatening violence if he did not join up. The Prime Minister then instructed his Minister of Justice to rush through Eire's Parliament bills giving the Government power to arrest suspected extremists on suspicion, execute them after a summary trial before secret military tribunals...
...Fast music increases metabolism and muscular energy, steps up the heartbeat, sends a rush of blood to the brain, elevates blood pressure. Slow, sentimental music produces opposite effects. Most stimulating are the swift tongue twisters of Gilbert & Sullivan. Most soothing: Kreisler's Old Refrain...
Production of antiaircraft guns and first-line fighting planes still lags below Britain's output in 1918. There has been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
...combat, gripping their injured members, and collapse on the floor in all the positions the Dying Gaul would have assumed had he been able to move. Immediately after their departure from the ice, which now looks like a strawberry patch after an elephant stampede, the more mundaneminded onlookers rush out and howl with glee at the residue...