Word: impromptu
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Determined to make a Democratic sweep in Massachusetts, the Harvard Progressive Committee supporting the president is making nightly trips throughout greater Boston speaking at rallies in that section. Everyone who is interested in making impromptu speeches from their sound truck can take part simply by showing up at Phillips Brooks House at 7:15 o'clock...
...sports which are supervised by coaches during the fall season are football, soccer, cross country, and crew. The rest are on an impromptu basis, but a fall tennis tournament is usually started before the month of October is very well along...
...other fall sports are to begin with football, and trailing that in publicity though not in popularity, come cross country, soccer, tennis, squash, crew, singles sculling, handball, with impromptu touch touch football, and fall baseball filling in the remaining spots. There's also pingpong and pool. Other sports which come up during the remainder of the year are hockey, wrestling, boxing, basketball, fencing, track, lacrosse, baseball, rugby, golf, and polo. This is a variety which is almost sure to offer at least one sport that a Freshman hasn't tried and probably more...
...pell-mell after him into Buckingham where one astounded Palace flunky in scarlet & gold was heard to say to another, "It's like the bloody Revolution!" When skies cleared King Edward appeared on a balcony to speed the 5,000 parting guests with one of his most felicitous impromptu speeches. Not all of it could be heard above the laughter and applause but deafening cheers greeted His Majesty's remark: "We in England need this rain less than the drought-stricken portions of Canada." Before drifting away the Canadians sang the refrain For He's a Jolly...
...phenomenal luck ("nobody could fight Caesar without making fatal mistakes"). And by the time he came to grips with Pompey for the mastery of the civilized world Caesar had become a pretty good soldier after all. "He made himself a great general by sheer thought." Now his tactics were "impromptu" but "dazzling." Readers closed the book feeling not unlike rubes whom another high-binding barker had fooled again...