Word: impromptu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surprised to discover, turned out only 25 cycle current, which is no longer used. H. A. Gould, one of the Commission's engineers, wired Mr. Beamish: "Plant worked by an emergency crew nearly 100 men and cost terrific." Steam was leaking through dried-up gaskets. Coffee and impromptu sandwiches were served in a room once used for repairing meters but the men felt so sick from oil fumes that they did not feel like eating anything. Mr. Beamish's engineers stood around, not helping. A little less than three days after Lawyer Kelley delivered Mr. Beamish...
...married one Billy Baker, a tap dancer who brought her to New York and eventually found her a job in the chorus of the No. 2 road company of Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when she lost her shoe, did an impromptu cooch dance with her eyes crossed. It brought her back to New York and a two-year job in the Broadway company of the same show. In 1925 a Mrs. Reagon, vaudeville booking agent, offered Josephine $250 a week to go to Paris. With the exception of a disastrous attempt to reinvade Broadway...
...weeks has been the elegant figure of M. Lucien Lelong, French War hero and member of that small coterie of Paris couturiers who rule the world of feminine fashion. M. Lelong has been in the U. S. frankly drumming up trade for his dresses and for his new perfume Impromptu which now shares honors with dress shields, bathing caps and fingernail polish in many a corner drugstore. An up & coming rival of M. Lelong is M. Marcel Rochas in both Paris fashions and perfume. He too is in the U. S. drumming up trade but by different means. His rivals...
...necessary, and for 95 per cent of the Freshmen they aren't, there are a host of other sports. Leading the list in publicity, if not in popularity, is football. After that comes cross country, soccer, singles sculling, tennis, swimming, squash, crew, with fall track, fall baseball, and impromptu touch football filling in the remaining spots for autumn recreation...
...bier in the State Capitol, lunched at the Little Rock Country Club where some of them took a dip nude in the pool (the few ladies in the building having been requested not to look out of the rear windows) before attending the burial. That evening the impromptu political caucus returned to its train and started back to Washington where this week a majority leader was to be chosen. One important new delegate was present, Vice President John Nance Garner who had closed his month's vacation in Texas. Before leaving Uvalde he succinctly announced: "Selection of a floor...