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Word: impromptu (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange assortment of gifts was a gesture of good-will from the Independents to the Jewish fund-raising organization whose cause they supported at a meeting last week. The meeting was thrown into confusion by an Arab, Victor E. Sawabial, who opposed the Jewisk migration in an impromptu speech...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sullivan Trucks Desert and Canaries for Independents | 2/21/1939 | See Source »

...bull escaped from a Brighton Stock yard, and after being mistaken by at least one motorist for a hippopotamus, attracted the attention of police. The officers of the law chased him to his impromptu field of battle and finally surrounded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE FIGHT, KILL WARLIKE BOVINE ON SOLDIERS FIELD | 12/6/1938 | See Source »

...longer able to buy network time, last year Father Coughlin shopped at independent stations, set up for himself an impromptu network for one hour each week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Slap | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Last week in the swank Viennese Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Roof Garden, a select group of swing fans sat out the most gilt-edged concert yet recorded in the annals of pure, impromptu swing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jam Session | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...TIME, Sept. 12 you published the statement: "U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt went further, suddenly declared impromptu at a Bordeaux banquet in the presence of three members of the French Cabinet: 'France and my country are indefectively united in war as in peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 17, 1938 | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

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