Word: impromptu
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...pluggers used the occasions to intone their wares. Pickpockets, purse snatchers, coat grabbers and assorted Broadway hoodlums worked overtime all week. Such flashy spenders as Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Movie Magnate William Fox dropped in to offer "premes" (premiums) that ran as high as $1,000 for winners of impromptu sprints. Al Capone was a regular (but his highest preme was only a $10 bill...
...next impromptu speaker wore a tweed coat with a velvet collar, and was interrupted by an occasional cheer for Jackson J. Holtz and the common...
...this issue of TIME closed, our editorial staff discovered it had some lovely reasons for an impromptu party: three orchid-decked researchers ablush and abeam with plans for marriage. Education's Marjorie Burns will be married to Research Physicist A. Bruce Brown Jr. on Oct. 19, Art's Joan Dye to Artist Alan Gussow on Oct. 21, and Foreign News's Monica von Swogetinsky to Lawyer Dudley Devine in December or January. Cheers and best wishes...
Seats for Thoughts. Oldtime Democrats, accustomed to their party's brawling, disorganized conventions of old, may think for a while that they have walked into the wrong building. Gone will be the traditional broad center aisle, scene of many a wild parade and impromptu caucus; instead, in the interests of good order and discipline, the convention managers have made space for only two side aisles. Gone, Democratic publicists promise, will be the fevered brows and sweat-stained shirts; air-conditioning equipment has been stepped up to a capacity equaling 2,000,000 Ibs. of ice daily, will lower...
...clangorous bell-ringing of a white-hating rabble-rouser and finds his inflamed flock already there, armed with guns and ready to shoot it out with a lynch mob of whites that is cruising around the bottom land. The Preacher heads off an ugly racial skirmish with an impromptu sermon: "Whether old Abe Lincoln live and die in vain depend on you ... I know well's anybody, we got fight back now and then [but] everybody got find their own freedom. Everybody got lead their own selves outen the wilderness . . . Me-I'm goin home...