Word: impromptue
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...their servants' party. She made a little speech ignoring the guests' servant status and from the boxes the British butlers bayed, like the House of Lords, "Hear! Hear!" Soon thereafter guests stopped watching each other. The hotel was serving drinks in two dining rooms whence presently came impromptu chorus singing. A delegation of White Star Line stewards arrived from the S. S. Majestic to scrape acquaintance with the maids...
MENACE - Philip MacDonald - Crime Club ($2). The presence of an avenger makes turmoil of an impromptu party...
Next move of President Grau's Government was to deal with the Cuban officers still besieged in the U. S.-owned National Hotel which they turned into an impromptu fortress after the sergeant's coup of "Emperor" Batista (TIME. Sept. 11). Tipped off to expect trouble, the National's U. S. Manager, W. P. Taylor, and his three assistants went out to a late dinner about 10 p. m. and did not return. Shooting started next dawn. Before sundown the entire vicinity was to be a bloody bedlam...
...Indianapolis was hardly out in deep water before its wireless began to crackle irritably with messages from Washington. The President was seriously annoyed by Secretary Swanson's impromptu sound-off on the White House steps. The Navy's chief well knew there was no connection between his cruise to the Pacific and the Cuban crisis. He ceased his happy strutting long enough to radio a public message to his Washington office : "A wholly erroneous interpretation has been given to my trip. This trip to the west Coast was planned, as every one knows, a month ago. ... I told...
...little tike who knows Jesus and rides up and down the street on his velocipede all day long singing 'Onward Christian Soldiers.'" Lou Hill likes to sing himself. In the Bible Church of hoodlum Cicero, Ill. he got himself photographed in an impromptu hymn sing (see cut) with four other gangsters turned evangelist: Bert Baker, onetime Capone man, Fred Jacover, "high class confidence man," Fred Ingersoll, "slickest automobile thief of them all," and Ralph Teter, "brains of the $350,000 Dearborn Station mail robbery...