Word: impromptu
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...show always has an impromptu atmosphere on the air and has a bad habit of running long, as Bing never holds a full rehearsal. If anything goes wrong, Bing's trigger-quick tongue is a certain safeguard. Recently, when Guest Jackie Cooper dropped his drummer's sticks during an act, Bing filled in with: "Hold the phone, there's been a nasty accident." For his solos, Bing has had one or two rehearsals with the band to get the timing, merely pulls out his pipe and tucks his gum against his teeth when the time comes...
...looks. The streets by day were deafening, by night as dark as doom, at all times filthy enough to guarantee the survival only of the fittest. Londoners were so energetic that despite a generous round of fairs, festivals, bear-baitings and other formal diversions, they repeatedly broke forth in impromptu mass hell-raising. They loved sport, splendor, cruelty, gayety, anarchy. There was no regular police force in London until...
Bobby Hackett and a four-piece Negro band will also perform at the benefit, in an impromptu jam session...
...almost say an unprecedented movement. It is all the result of the food served at the Union, which has brought loud complaints, both intestinal and vocal, from its victims. Too often do diners have their choice of stews, hashes and other slyly-titled ramifications of once-new food. An impromptu committee of disgruntled Freshmen is now investigating the matter, bent upon some solution...
...impromptu and unrehearsed broadcast including interviews with girls from Vassar, Smith, and Wellesley, and with the football captains of Brown and Harvard is on the schedule for the radio program from the Leverett House dance this Saturday night, according to Henry White of the N. B. C. staff...