Word: impromptu
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...rims he put in his caps. The capmaker said that the answer was not for ladies to hear. Bender insisted. Lev bent over the Senator and whispered loudly: "Made out of the same stuff they make falsies of." Standing jowl to jowl with Senator Bender, Lev put on an impromptu fashion show, whipping sample hats on and off his head. Bender was curious about Lev's "social" relationship with Mrs. Mella Hort, ex-contract administrator in the Defense Department who had testified that she had visited Lev's hotel room...
Taylor, a quiet, handsome six-footer who keeps his weight down to a trim 175, is a notably deliberate man. "I never do anything impromptu," he says...
...Britain's Ascot Heath track, two pretty equestriennes, Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret, staged an impromptu three-furlong horse race. Neck and neck most of the way, they galloped abreast into the stretch, where Margaret pushed her mount ahead to win by three lengths. Later, the two royal ladies still had horses on their minds. They turned up in West Norfolk to watch a horsy event, strolled to the stands with the care free air of schoolgirls on a holiday...
...followed it with eleven years, on and off, of traveling in France, Italy and Spain. Back in Philadelphia in the '90s, Henri was ready for his first circle of converts, a group of Philadelphia newspaper illustrators who made Henri's studio their rendezvous. There, between amateur theatricals, impromptu concerts and Welsh-rarebit feasts, Henri preached a two-fisted approach to painting, drove home his lessons with references to the exciting "modern" works of Courbet and Manet-plus such old masters as Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Goya and Velásquez. Soon his eager listeners, including such star pupils...
...parking lot, to the law and graduate schools (upper right, lower left and right)--for 24 hours each day takes much of the manpower. The police do not cover Radcliffe, patrolled by separate night watchmen, except for occasional incidents, such as that last Yale weekend, when students conducted an impromptu parade to the Annex...