Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some quarters as the Turnipseed gambit. In their unemployment demonstrations in 1931, Baltimore Communists, looking for trouble, regularly refused to get parade permits. Baltimore police, not looking for trouble, developed the expedient of issuing a permit to an aged and cooperative Negro, George Alexander Turnipseed by name, who thereupon was rushed to the head of the parade, waving a red flag and protected on either side by Baltimore's finest, who found it better to lead a parade than to break...
...attending a play, said a Corporation Report of November 19 of that year, not only "takes students' minds off from their studies," but also may lead to improper personal associations, which often "prove embarrassing to themselves, cause financial difficulties for their parents, and tend upon other disorders." The Corporation thereupon voted to make illegal participation in, or attendance at, any sort of theatrical entertainment by students in Harvard College. This rule represents the basic philosophy that has been the power behind the dramatic scene in the University to the present...
...Thereupon bullet-headed Daikichi Ubukata, 67-year-old Democrat, rose solemnly from his blue plush seat, slowly wobbled over to a porcelain spittoon in one corner to execute a unique political comment. Ubukata was heard boasting in a bus next morning: "I am probably the only person in history who has ever relieved himself in the main hall of the Diet...
Nancy's Friend. He displayed his understanding of other matters at a tea at Rhodes House. To a group of American scholars he said: "I should ask if anyone here has a girl friend named Nancy." There was: Rhodes Scholar Buckley Whitelach. The Secretary thereupon delivered the message, from Nancy Adams: she hoped soon to be on her way to England...
...ousted Red mayor, fixed a baleful eye on Carlini, his Gaullist successor, and interrupted the preliminary business to demand an immediate discussion of the streetcar-fare boost. Carlini refused. Instantly the 24 "Cocos" began shouting abuse; one of them threw a chair at the mayor. A woman Socialist thereupon spattered Communist Cristofol's shirtfront with ink and spat in his face...