Word: impromptu
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Last week Candidate Dewey got back from the hopeful country to the cynical city of New York. In eleven and a half days he had traveled 7,500 miles, appeared on the rear platform of his train at 48 Western stations, made 36 impromptu station platform speeches (three of them in snowstorms, and one, in La Grande...
Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam bath...
...found talent blossomed in Harvard yesterday when the painting crew engaged in the beautification of Centry of Adams House burst into an impromptu, but talented rendition of "Silent Night...
...large in London. While the press regarded the situation with "dismay," the Government stood adamant against opening schools in the danger areas, lest it encourage a wholesale return. It did, however, recall 200 teachers to London, sent them out to round up youngsters in the streets and hold impromptu classes on sandbags, in church crypts, in basements...
Last week U. S. undergraduates (some 1,250,000 of them), always new, always the same, arrived on their traditional campuses to> start the fall term in the traditional way. As usual, they chattered of football prospects, fraternities, girls, played impromptu games of touch football...