Word: impromptue
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Papers in the military law examination are returned during the week, and impromptu legal societies arose in every room to discuss the points of military law delivered by the test. At meetings of the platoons, the results were gone over thoroughly by the major and many experiments were settled...
...victory from the air -"I think it proper to express a word of caution against hasty conclusions or impromptu conceptions. ... I am convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...
...Americans strike up a correspondence with Russians, it has been flooded with letters like the one from George MacLellan, hat checker in a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. Not all writers offered the shirts off their backs. But in the terrific quantity (1,200,000 letters to date), there came forth an impromptu outpouring of unsuspected American good will for the Russians...
...mayonnaise, ham and tongue, rolls, butter and cold beer. Airmen invited to meet the "distinguished Mr. Bullfinch" reported that when he whammed a fly with 39 his long-tailed Egyptian fly whisk, he paused to comment dryly: "I don't think that was a probable, gentlemen." In an impromptu speech to flyers just off patrol duty, he said: "You have fought a battle comparable with the Battle of Britain. You need not doubt that you will be supplied with the best equipment...
...Impromptu. But at the last minute a few white ladies changed their minds about being aloof. Led by Y.W.C.A. Secretary Mrs. Lula Carr, they met the First Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill...