Word: impromptu
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...Club, Bettis Field Airport, the Pittsburgh Symphony under Antonio Modarelli gave its first open air popular concert, drew such a crowd that its executive board met impromptu, immediately announced a second...
...program to be played by Professor Ballantine contains the following numbers: Sonata, Opus 109, by Beethoven; Gigue in G, by Bach; Romance, by Brahms; Cappricio, by Brahms; Impromptu in G. Flat, by Chopin; Rumanian Christmas Songs, by Bartok; and Goldfish, by Debussy...
Each man is to speak for two and one-half minutes. During the first minute, he will read a carefully contrived phonetic test including many of the important combinations of sounds commonly used by phoneticians to reveal variations in speech and will complete the period with an impromptu talk in the freest and easiest natural manner, so that his characteristic tonal quality, intonation and inflection may be observed. Included with each record will be an index card to be filled out with information concerning the influences to which he has been subjected, both hereditary and environmental, as well...
...Little King, who at the same time abdicated from the New Yorker, his contract having expired. In his debut as a Hearstling the Little King romped gaily in color through a page of ten drawings, in which he was depicted as entertaining his assembled subjects with an impromptu performance on a tight rope...
Quick-witted and self-possessed, Premier Okada let the newshawks peck him with impromptu questions about the issue closest to his heart as a Japanese Navy man. This issue all Japanese quarterdeckers passionately call "The 1935 Crisis." The Empire's life and honor are at stake, they insist, because in 1935 the U. S., Britain and Japan must, by treaty, hold a Naval Conference to alter or prolong the 5-5-3 ratio between their navies beyond...