Word: makeshift
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...vigorous, exuberant prima donna swept across the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The big curtain was down tight; another makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...
...Monte Leon, had rushed with the Papal decree of creation from Rome); knelt on a coronation cushion the République has frugally preserved from monarchial times; felt the soft folds of the cappa magna fall over his shoulders from the hands of his brother cardinal; passed into a makeshift vestry; donned in privacy the complete cardinalitial regalia; stepped out a prince of the Church; accepted felicitations. The band blared to perfection the Marseillaise...
...question is not the facility of the proposed change, but its desirability. In the first place a chapel outside the Yard would be most undesirable. And it would be a detraction to the herces of the World War to give them a makeshift memorial in a building dedicated to other heroes...
...hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning every few days to Dr. Rice with fresh pictures of what lay before him. A radio operator, John Swanson, also flew in the plane. His makeshift stations erected in the jungle effected the first direct wireless communication between South America and London...
...makeshift line-up which will be on the floor at the opening whistle has been working together all week in an effort to gain power and teamwork. Barbee is slowly becoming accustomed to his new position, but he will have to last the entire game because Coach Drohan has no more center reserves on hand. Out of a squad of 19, only 12 have been practicing regularly this week, just enough to make up two teams for daily scrimmages...