Word: impromptue
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Morning activities will consist of informal baseball games on Soldiers Field with impromptu lineups. All necessary equipment for the games will be supplied by the H. A. A. The teams will be made up of graduates and their sons who are now in college. For those who do not wish to play baseball, the new pool in the gymnasium will be open to the visitors, who may try out the spring boards until 12.30 o'clock...
...that soul satisfying thing- a church convention (at New Orleans) without bitter bickering. A subject of mild controversy was revision of the church constitution. Revision was passed over to next year's convention, at Birmingham, Ala. Happily exalted, many of the departing Baptists could not restrain themselves from impromptu prayer meetings in the railroad stations. As they traveled to their homes they carried with them two vigorous inspirations-on Prohibition, on Evangelism. Dr. Arthur James Barton of Atlanta had told them: "There is no neutral ground in this [ Prohibition] war. It is a 'war to the knife...
...because it is a sort of game. There is always something different, just like the other night when I missed my one and forgot to come on the stage. Poor Charlie (who incidentally happens to be Mr. Charles Purcell, the Chocolate Soldier in person) was making impromptu speeches and at the same time muttering under his breath, 'where the devil's MacKenzie', in a most terrifying fashion. When I finally appeared smiling sweetly he gave me a terrible look, but that...
...Upsettledness Gertrude Stein (famed maker of verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...
Immediately following his impromptu announcement, Mr. Ryan gave out a release from the Bruins' office which quoted W. J. Bingham '16 as saying that he had no statement to make as to what Mr. Whiteside's official capacity would be. It was generally believed, however, in Boston and Harvard athletic circles last night that the former Syracuse oarsman and coach would be tendered the position of head crew coach here at Harvard...