Word: impromptue
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When it was discovered that a similar impromptu call had been paid at the Rumanian Legation, where five sticks of dynamite and a fuse were discovered in a crack of the doorstep, the Government ordered a close watch to be kept on all Legations and reinforced the police by two companies of infantry...
...innovation, precedented perhaps only by Demosthenes famous self-imposed handicaps, Professor Kittredge declared to have been planned beforehand. The fact, however, that the animal has frequently attended uninvited Dr. Maynadler's classes in the English novel, which meet in the same room, indicated that this explanation may have been impromptu...
...started out with two movements from the Bach Italian Concerto, in the first of which he was noticeably nervous and therefore inaccurate. The second he played with a real depth of emotion and stylistic discrimination perhaps unexpected of him. In the Chopin number which followed, the Fantasie-Impromptu, a Mazurka, the A Flat Ballade, he again disclosed a wealth of poetic imagination, proving himself a really great Chopin player...
...also remarked: " I have had to refuse generous proposals to lecture. The American standard of lecturing is too low. Your public expects impromptu lectures and I have no time to prepare them-up to my own standard...
...Argentina the news of Firpo's victory was received with frenzied jubilation. After the result was announced on the sidewalks of Buenos Aires (one minute after the knockout), great crowds marched through the streets " shouting and singing loudly and making impromptu torches of twisted newspapers...