Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty times battling bobbies put on a truncheon charge. To defend the Houses of Parliament, to keep the mob from crossing the river, London's brave bobbies were obliged for the first time to rush motor cars up to Thames bridgeheads and park them close together as an impromptu barricade...
...Spaeth has explained his method, which anyone can learn, of separating a song into melody patterns, which may run from two notes to the whole chromatic scale. Some songs come piecemeal from the classics, like "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" which is found in Chopin's Fantasie Impromptu. Others are scrambled together like "Yes, We Have No Bananas," which contains bits from Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, "My Bonnie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls," "Aunt Dinah's Quilting Party" and "An Old-Fashioned Garden." As Tune Detective, Dr. Spaeth sings, plays and analyzes snatches from...
...House. After they had left he heard disturbing news about raids on the dollar abroad, was unable to sleep. At 5:30 a.m. he arose, took pencil & paper, wrote diligently for three hours. At 10:30 a.m. he told the Cabinet he would address the Senate at noon, an impromptu procedure such as none at the White House could recall witnessing. From a special platform set up at the reading clerk's desk the President voiced his grave concern over depletion of the nation's gold reserves; appealed for economy of $400,000,000, support of his relief...
...Impromptu debates with Communist and Hitlerite hecklers enlivened the recent Ford Hall address of Dr. Ernst Jackh on the immediate political destiny of Germany. As soon as Dr. Jackh had finished a discussion of Nietzsche, he was forced to interpret Karl Marx to a questioning audience. The intelligent liberalism of the speaker was in sharp contrast to the inflexible dogmatism of his Communist interlocutors...
...clothes, European travel and an education in social politeness. These make an unsophisticated admirer, when they meet again, mistake her for a lady. After three years of pleasurable intimacy, Gable is threatened by a scandal. His mistress has been ennobled by experience and she defends his conduct in an impromptu speech to a political gathering. The speech is so dextrous, so sincere that it prompts cheers and a conclusion in which matrimony is implied...