Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Havana, some time ago, one A. G. Tarn saw Blixtra, a three-year-old racehorse that looked as if it could run. He bought it, took it back to the U. S. Whereupon Blixtra lost 18 races in succession...
...aging professor's advances are scornfully repulsed by one of his girl pupils, whereupon he succumbs to a senile bronchial complaint...
...Whereupon Judge Paul W. Guilford held Pastor Swenson in contempt of court, sentenced him to 30 days in jail or to pay $100 fine...
America's Sweetheart is notable if only for its refreshing little plot, which consistently refuses to run the usual course of musicomedies. The standard Act I finale finds the Boy and the Girl bitterly disappointed through some unfortunate misunderstanding, whereupon one or the other inevitably sings a snatch of the show's torch song and wanders hopelessly away. In America's Sweetheart, however, when Jack Whiting sees that his girl friend (Harriette Lake) is about to throw him over for a big cinemagnate, he breaks into a sullen soft-shoe dance with Gus Shy, the comic...
...less, until [again the chuckle] she said she would have to stop, otherwise she wouldn't be eating anything at all, but would still feel fine." Will more research in health-biology and chemistry-mean less in electricity- and mechanics? "No, it brings new fields to work in." Whereupon, after a few more questions & answers on stray subjects, Dr. Edison tucked a napkin in his collar and quietly swigged his ration of milk from a thermos bottle...