Word: afterwards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whisper, "I think perhaps you would like to waken now and get up." Once awake, Old Mrs. Greene feels too old, too weary, to arrange her own little walks, rests, games of "patience." She lets her companion arrange them. Dinner is the sacred hour; not then, not even afterward, can the companion express a personal opinion. Yet. the companion once breaks that rule. Although only 38, she says to Old Mrs. Greene, "I should like to die in the autumn." Startled, Mrs. Greene ponders the disparity of their ages, impulsively gives her a ruby-and-diamond brooch...
...tycoon, father of Nathan F. Leopold Jr. (famed co-murderer, with Richard Loeb, of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924); after an operation; in Chicago. Murderer Loeb's father died in 1924. Father Jacob Franks died last year. All three fathers, prominent Chicagoans before the crime, lived afterward in seclusion...
...driver he hired Fortune Friendly, variously parson and pinochle player. Dan first saw Fortune racing from a village with the entire population thundering hotfooted in his wake. Cornered in a barn, Fortune delivered, gasping, a hell-and-damnation sermon which left not a member of his congregation unchastised. Afterward he explained to Dan'l that he had contracted to give six sermons, but finding only five at the bookstalls, he necessarily made off before the sixth. Sheer terror inspired the extemporaneous barnyard Jeremiad...
...Shortly afterward Hero Lindbergh inaugurated the Mexico City-Brownsville, Tex., air mail route, flying a tri-motor Ford plane. Prior to the Colonel's departure from Mexico City...
...learned "helping" her father work out his navigation problems. Reading she learned from an intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments was, under Stitches' supervision, the dissection of a shark that chanced to be with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense...