Word: impromptu
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Thus the scene, and upon it Marshal Pilsudski must make his inevitably melodramatic appearance with good effect? not the reverse. During the afternoon and most of the evening JJ. Briand coached and perhaps coaxed the Marshal. Next morning the impromptu melodrama was played out at a secret session of the League Council. But details soon leaked...
When on Commencement mooring the Sheriff of Middlesex Country comes slowly forward in front of the platform, pounds his aword three times up on the boards, and says "The assembly will now come to order," a distinct odor of the past pervades the impromptu behind Sever. For the words spoken now for many years by Sheriff Fahburn were spoken on the came occasion by his predecessors for more then a hundred years before his day. The calling to order of the "assembly" of black-gowned students, their families, and the customary "puellae" is one of the oldest of Harvard traditions...
Meanwhile Burgomaster Seitz, seeing the police helpless, was able to marshal 2,000 reservist soldiers of the so-called Republican Guard. Resolute, these impromptu troops...
...drags celebrities out on her jazz floor, makes them perform, makes them ridiculous to their own intense delight-for the crowd are all clannishly impersonal and good-humored. Therefore, last week Prince Henry was not irked when Miss Jones sought to draft him as a contestant in an impromptu black bottom contest...
...more spine-chilling if The Spider (TIME, April 4) had not arrived first in Manhattan with much the same formula. A horde of unnamed actors are planted in the audience to be yanked from their seats, shoot from the balcony and participate generally in what looks like an impromptu actors' tong...