Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Indianapolis was hardly out in deep water before its wireless began to crackle irritably with messages from Washington. The President was seriously annoyed by Secretary Swanson's impromptu sound-off on the White House steps. The Navy's chief well knew there was no connection between his cruise to the Pacific and the Cuban crisis. He ceased his happy strutting long enough to radio a public message to his Washington office : "A wholly erroneous interpretation has been given to my trip. This trip to the west Coast was planned, as every one knows, a month ago. ... I told...
...little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...
...atmosphere of pleasant informality. They could recall friendly expressions of "cooperation" which opened their dealings with Presidents Hoover, Coolidge, Harding, Wilson; but not such cordial warmth as this. Presently they learned of a more important innovation. President Roosevelt intended to answer questions-not only written questions, but impromptu verbal questions popped to his face. He would try it, he said, despite advice by wiseacres that no President since Theodore Roosevelt had been able to keep...
...Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...
...best section of Act I is "Impromptu" laid in the music publishing office of Ernst Weber at Munich. To it come apple-cheeked Dr. Lessing (Al Shean), his pretty, wide-eyed daughter Sieglinde (Katherine Carrington of Face the Music) and her rustic boy friend Karl (Walter Slezak). These bucolics have arrived in town with the walking club from the mountain village of Edendorf where everyone seems to have been born with a pitchpipe in his mouth. Unhappily for them, the rural lovers meet a playwright and his man-killing mistress, an opera star, impersonated with gusto by beauteous Natalie Hall...