Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Police worked like beavers wiring down iron gratings, removing fences from tree trunks, piles of paving blocks and other impromptu weapons, and warning cafe proprietors to clear their terraces of siphons and heavy saucers. A dozen times angry crowds, led by Royalists, were beaten back by police reserves. Meanwhile the first duel resulting from Stavisky revelations was fought by Deputy André Hesse and Lawyer Joseph Beneix in the empty stadium of the Parc des Princes which can seat 20,000. The duelists missed each other twice and stalked furiously from the field. When dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe...
...General Boulanger to the harried cabinet of M. Chautemps. Thousands of police and brass-hatted Republican Guardsmen guard the Chamber of Deputies and other government buildings. Meanwhile, mobs of otherwise respectable citizens scurry up and down the boulevards, battling with the constabulary. The streets have been torn up and impromptu fortifications constructed; all cafes have closed their doors and brought their tables inside; rioters have braved the charges of the gendarmes and ruined all efforts of mounted squadrons to disperse them by tossing magnesium flares at their horses...
...their servants' party. She made a little speech ignoring the guests' servant status and from the boxes the British butlers bayed, like the House of Lords, "Hear! Hear!" Soon thereafter guests stopped watching each other. The hotel was serving drinks in two dining rooms whence presently came impromptu chorus singing. A delegation of White Star Line stewards arrived from the S. S. Majestic to scrape acquaintance with the maids...
MENACE - Philip MacDonald - Crime Club ($2). The presence of an avenger makes turmoil of an impromptu party...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...