Word: impromptu
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...before he left court, Foreman Conant arose and made an impromptu, unexpected speech. He said so much in such short space, that his words went far beyond the courtroom, went abroad to lay trial-by-jury as it sometimes operates today, before the bar of the body social. Foreman Conant said...
...indicate that rain is as indispensable as the kick-off. People who have attended these community shower-baths will feel an appreciative sympathy to read the chronicle of the 1890 game, when it poured torrents and all the spectators had to take cover under oilcloth table cover and other impromptu ponchos...
...minor Schumann Scherzo in A Major Beethoven Rhapsody in B minor Brahma Burlesca Scarlatti Le Carillon de Cynthere Couperin The Little Windmills Couperin Descriptions Automatiques Satie Preludes in A minor and B flat Bach Mazurka in C sharp minor Chopin Prelude Scriabine Prelude in C major Prokofieff March Prokofieff Impromptu in F minor Schubert
What more fit subject for comedy than an impromptu encounter between the goody and the hapless student at some compromising moment? For red-blooded action with thrills and hair-breadth escapes, there are the traffic terrors of the Square. Suspense and tragedy could both be embodied in a visit to University Hall. For human interest, what more moving than a close-up of the daily organ-grinder? And as for mystery, the movie might make a real contribution to the world's knowledge by revealing the ways and means, of Max Keezer and those cherubs of doubtful extraction who have...
Mourning thousands stood tense and sorrow-stricken in the rays of the setting sun. All eyes were bent upon impromptu catafalque where lay the body of a young French ex-soldier; his rigid limbs were garmented in white; beside him reposed his "Blue Devil" Tarn O' Shanter. He, Jean Borotra, French Davis Cup competitor, had just been smitten unconscious by a tennis ball rebounding from the racquet of the Australian Gerald Patterson in the fourth set of an international doubles match at Forest Hills, L. I. On the day previous, Patterson had beaten Lacoste in the singles, Borotra...