Word: impromptue
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Coleridge on Cologne Sirs: Confidential: re Cologne Scribbling impromptu verse was a lifelong habit of Samuel Taylor Coleridge...
...less talented classes which preceded us in the same line of endeavor. Individual honors for consumption and antics were carried off by a member of a set of twins who are locally famous for their literary efforts. He was, however, closely followed by "Tex" Lifshutz, whose bass and impromptu leadership of rollicking songs left little in question about his ability to both consume and produce...
...soldiers. The saying that the U.S. Army abroad consists of "7,000,000 isolationists" got to be a cliché last year. It probably has the faults of most cliches. Last week a TIME correspondent, freshly arrived in Britain from the U.S., told of an impromptu session with hundreds of homesick airmen. What he found was a deep concern in both domestic and foreign affairs, unmatched by anything he had recently seen or heard of at home...
There was nothing impromptu in this plan of campaign: Tom Dewey and his advisers were firmly convinced that 1944 was no year for barnstorming. They wanted to keep the campaign on a high, even solemn level, befitting a time of crisis. On the practical side, they knew that the mistakes a candidate makes count much more heavily, and stick in the voters' minds much more firmly, than positive gains...
...would seem logical and fair that, for every French prostitute so eagerly shaven and stripped by the impromptu courts held by French people, one shopkeeper and one businessman or businesswoman should also be given the same treatment. They, too, in their own way, have been doing business with the Nazis, the only difference, perhaps, being in the greater profit realized by the shopkeeper and businessman...