Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is his brother Philip Gibbs-whom he admires tremendously-who, when forced upon a lecture platform, always looks like a "frightfully tired Savonarola who is speaking in a trance." And there are Hamilton's own sensations on such occasions, when he always gives impromptu speeches. There is his visit to America where he met John Drew, the "Squire of Easthampton and the gardenia of the American stage"; his meeting with the "wistful Charlie Chaplin, who hides the soul of Punchinello beneath the comic rags of slapstick"; and that "delightful, naive and unconceited man, Will Rogers, who will never...
When it was discovered that a similar impromptu call had been paid at the Rumanian Legation, where five sticks of dynamite and a fuse were discovered in a crack of the doorstep, the Government ordered a close watch to be kept on all Legations and reinforced the police by two companies of infantry...
...innovation, precedented perhaps only by Demosthenes famous self-imposed handicaps, Professor Kittredge declared to have been planned beforehand. The fact, however, that the animal has frequently attended uninvited Dr. Maynadler's classes in the English novel, which meet in the same room, indicated that this explanation may have been impromptu...
...started out with two movements from the Bach Italian Concerto, in the first of which he was noticeably nervous and therefore inaccurate. The second he played with a real depth of emotion and stylistic discrimination perhaps unexpected of him. In the Chopin number which followed, the Fantasie-Impromptu, a Mazurka, the A Flat Ballade, he again disclosed a wealth of poetic imagination, proving himself a really great Chopin player...
...also remarked: " I have had to refuse generous proposals to lecture. The American standard of lecturing is too low. Your public expects impromptu lectures and I have no time to prepare them-up to my own standard...