Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conversation turned to the talking pictures, whereupon Miss Cowl said: "It is a purely economic truth that the talking movies will replace the legitimate drama inside of ten years. A theatrical manager is forced to spend between fifty and eighty thousand dollars on a production, can show it in only one city at a time, and then must wait several months before his returns come in. But a motion picture producer is able to make a film and a sound record and to distribute the show for presentation in 70 cities at the same time...
...from the German Treasury, and the Reparations Commission then credits Germany with the amount of the payment, just as though it had been made to the Commission in gold; 3) Meanwhile the French dealer who received the sugar sells it and makes payment to the French-Government in francs, whereupon the Reparations-Commission certifies that France has received the German payment, just as though it had been made directly from Berlin to Paris in gold...
...nauseated, well punished for their peeping-tommery. The piece had been all about an Englishman who morbidly followed a French circus for years, hoping to see the lion eat the trainer. By way of grisly climax the French trainer, vexed, flung the Englishman into the lion's cage, whereupon the stage was darkened and awful groans, snarls and tearing sounds betokened that the Englishman was being eaten...
Most people thought until quite recently that pneumonia was a disease in which one grew rapidly worse until THE CRISIS, whereupon one either died or definitely recovered, unless there was a RELAPSE. These old-fashioned ideas have been strikingly challenged by the King of England's steady resistance to pneumonia over a period exceeding three weeks. Science has now so advanced the medical profession that it has been possible to increase and fortify the white germ-destroying corpuscles in the blood royal. The skilled specialist is prepared today to wage a long-drawn war of attrition with the enemy...
...Grischa could read not one of any seven, and in a few hours he was imprisoned again. For, the newest ordinance read that in the name of discipline all Russian deserters would be executed-dour example to weary-hearted German soldiers. Grischa, alias Deserter Bjuscheff, was promptly sentenced, whereupon he took refuge in confessing his camouflage. His peasant simplicity won belief in the hearts of guards, officers, and even old Commander von Lychow...