Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...score of riders and two dozen hounds had an appointment with a New Jersey fox one day last week. It was, as the club's pro huntsman told a New York Times reporter afterward, "the longest, hardest, most harrowing and most exhausting appointment" in the history of the Essex Fox Hound Hunt Club...
...poetry. Discussing the London Bridge area, Baedeker relates: "In one of the houses dwelt Sir John Hewittf Lord Mayor in the time of Queen Elizabeth, whose daughter, according to the romantic story, fell into the river and was rescued by Edward Osborne, his apprentice. The brave and fortunate youth afterward married the young lady and founded the family of the present Duke of Leeds...
...Sempach burghers themselves had ordered the windows removed in 1814 to let more light into their hall. Afterward they were sold to a composer for a handful of pocket change and their travels began. One of the Rothschilds bought them in 1853. Duveen Bros., the London art dealers, got hold of them in 1897 and offered them to the Swiss National Museum for $1,250 apiece. While the Swiss deliberated, the elder J. P. Morgan snapped them up. In 1942, Honegger bought them at an auction of part of the Morgan Collection, had them fitted into window frames...
...Afterward came the studio's biggest protocol headache: a party at Mike Romanoff's restaurant, which can hold only 250-of the very best people, of course. When it was time for comments about the film, everyone seemed to have enjoyed it. There was no need to fall back on the standard gambit of those who are forced to comment on a bad new movie: "What a picture! What a performance!" Fox figured that, all in all, it was well worth...