Word: impromptu
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More than slightly baffled, the UNO committee set off for London to report their decision to the delegates of all nations. Their departure passed unnoticed by the citizens of Connecticut-Westchester, who were too busy arguing, holding impromptu town meetings in their homes (see cut) and petitioning Congress, which must agree to give up sovereignty over the area before UNO can have...
Died. Carlton Cole Magee, 73, Albuquerque Journal editor who blew the top off Teapot Dome with editorial dynamite, and in a quieter moment invented the parking meter; in Oklahoma City. Jailroaded (for libel) by political casualties of the explosion, Firebrand Magee was promptly pardoned, got in an impromptu fist-and-gunfight with the judge who sent him up, accidentally killed a bystander, but beat the homicide...
King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret Rose appeared at London's New Theater, TIME, JULY 23, 1945 laughed royally at L'Impromptu de Versailles, Moliere's snicker at the artificiality of France's 17th-Century court...
Reported the New York Times's Bertram D. Hulen: "[The correspondents] left . . . impressed with the feeling that Mr. Truman had firmly grasped the reins of office and had demonstrated his ability to meet impromptu questions with sharp and direct replies." The U.S. press agreed...
...they were mostly preoccupied with the delights and hazards of freedom. Several hundred Russian, Polish and Czech farm laborers shut Count & Countess Wolff von Metternich in their Westphalian castle, organized an impromptu commune. Said one of the Russians: "For five years we watched them eat eggs. Now we eat eggs...