Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Board of Education, a partial set of false teeth in Mayor William Hale Thompson's capable mouth, has orders to chew up Superintendent McAndrew. It refused to receive his statement. Whereupon Superintendent McAndrew silently collected his papers on his desk in the "trial" room, turned his back on the board and began to walk...
...Prime Minister, who helped to defend M. Manoilescue, testified that the late King Ferdinand saw Prince Carol in Paris last year and attempted to persuade him to abandon Magda Lupescu, his red-haired mistress, and conduct himself as the court wished. The Prince seemed willing, but made conditions. Whereupon the King angrily cried: "It is not for you to make conditions "but for me, the King, to do so!" Embittered at his son's attitude, the ailing Monarch returned to Bucharest. Soon afterwards, however, he admitted to General Averescu that Prince Carol would return sometime, but that it would...
...Whereupon the British Government let it be known that it would permit no nation other than itself to build the dam, holding that it had power to prevent the undertaking by virtue of the Anglo-Abyssinian Treaty of 1902, signed with Negusa Nagasth (King of Kings) Menelik...
...rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused to go whereupon Jones 'took her gently by the hand and led her to the door.' There she raised an outcry, tore her clothing, and rushing out on the street to a woman she called her mother, screamed that Jones had assaulted her. . . . Jones at first failed to realize that he had been...
...more than $300,000,000 would be unsafe. Both Senators Harrison and Smoot agreed on one point-the desirability of calling a special session of Congress in October. Some weeks ago Senator Smoot visited President Coolidge (then in Washington) and announced that a special session would doubtless be called. Whereupon the Senator was snubbed by the announcement that the Administration was by no means committed to an extra session. Since that time Washington correspondents have had two stock stories-the President denying all intention of calling a special session and the Senator insisting that a special session would be called...