Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that it is the second largest in the world. The Cabinet as a whole and more especially its Radical and Socialist members, added M. Poincaré, had never been consulted by him with respect to the bill, which had originated in the Foreign Ministry, where sole responsibility must rest. Thereupon, having blandished, explained and weaseled, the Prime Minister set his firm, pointed jaw and barked that he refused on his own responsibility to alter the bill, and critics could like or lump. There was of course, he smiled in conclusion, not the remotest thought of uniting church and state...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...tiny last on which with boyish zeal he pegged toy shoes. At 18 the Founder had saved 400 kronen ($80), the fruit of hard pegging and self denial. Also his sister Anna and his brother Anthony (now dead) had each saved 400 kronen, so runs the legend. Thereupon, in 1894, with a total capital of $240, the three Bat'as founded their own small shoe factory...
Within 24 hours the U. S. State Department unmistakably informed the press that Jonkheer Loudon's proposal was deplored by both President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg. Thereupon one of Jonkheer Loudon's smart Dutch secretaries pointed out to correspondents at Geneva that President Coolidge conducted his Nicaraguan election negotiations (TIME, April 18, 1927) not merely through secret diplomatic channels but by means of a "personal representative"* who never had any public or official status...
...countered by kidnapping her brood, complete with nurses, to the Dolomites where Bachelor Martin was wooing a suave and lovely widow of the old school. Naïvely Judy demanded Martin's championship versus parents-which is all very well till he falls in love with her. He thereupon escapes to Africa; she and her brood, un-championed, lapse into their hectic scattered existence at smart European hotels, in the feverish wake of this parent or that...