Word: impromptu
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Thrown out of the Dunster dining room Wednesday evening when their impromptu canvassing almost started a riot, two students came back last night to continue garnering signatures for Universal Military Training. This time they had official sanction, and gleaned 147 autographs from 350 House members...
...Floogie Bird." The President, who with wife & daughter appeared at both dinners, was at his best at the Statler. There he got off some impromptu remarks which were just what the audience wanted to hear. He said there would be a lot of talk between now and November, "very, very little of which will be the truth." If the voters know the truth, he added, they "will not turn the Government over to a bunch of reactionaries who are trying to take us back to 1896. Conditions are too grave in the world at the present time...
...recital invariably begins with an obeisance to the forces of classisicism and/or ingenuousness. This seldom comes off very well because of the contradiction between the nature of the music and of the performer. Sunday it was a Haydn Sonath and a Schubert Impromptu, both of which suffered from the prevailing atmosphere of a Prometheus bound within too-narrow emotional limits. The pieces were both miscast as an overture, but that was the role they were forced to play...
...weekly sportswriters' luncheon in Boston yesterday noon and a subsequent impromptu gathering of a part of the football faculty cleared up some loose ends and misconceptions about the Yale game. Primarily, certain of the Hub's fourth estate, after seeing, the official movies, and without the benefit of coaching (Crimson or otherwise) from the sidelines, strongly implied in print last night that atrocious officiating had cost the visiting team the ball game. We state this merely as news facts and take no subjective stand until viewing the movies ourselves in the next...
...willful destruction of Yale students or impromptu decoration of the Eli stronghold over the coming weekend will provoke swift retribution from University Hall, warned Wilbur J. Bender '27, Dean of the College, yesterday...