Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is known as being On the Spot. "Oh yeah," my children say, "you spank us little guys but you don't dare touch the big ones!" "Oh, don't I?" says I. I went out and politely told the big boys that they knew the rules. Whereupon they threw some more snowballs, including a few in my direction. I chose the biggest boy I could find (6 ft. 1 in.), hit him as hard as I could, was sworn at, slapped him again, and stood my ground until he slunk off to tell the principal...
Wedding March. In St. Louis, Bridesmaid Josephine Bobak fainted, whereupon Groom Nicholas Bobak fainted, Bride Helen Wolken fainted, Father Wempe called a recess...
...find an officer "who could be made an example of." (The FBI, fearful of looking like a Gestapo, refused.) Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs adopted a new code for military attaches. This code remained unbroken more than a year later. The worst scare of all came during the 1944 presidential campaign, when George Marshall heard that Thomas E. Dewey knew the secret and might refer to it in speeches (see below...
...building was "a great strain on my nerves." There was much more than "strain" connected with the "Titanic" tragedy which caused the death of Harry Elkins Widener, from whom the University received a valuable book and manuscript collection. His gift contained the stipulation that a suitable building be provide, whereupon his mother donated the columned hall. In comparison to this, the $1,500,000 gift of Thomas W. Lamont '92 was revealed in a casual note. And to this, with the same manipulation of zeros, another $1,500,000 will be added as a book and maintenance fund...
American girls from the audience served as scented guinea pigs. Sure enough, the same essence on three different skins smelled differently to G.I. judges. Labourdette put some on my hand. A G.I. smelled and passed judgment: "On you it stinks." Whereupon, we all had some champagne and the party broke up bubbling with good will...