Word: thereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wilhelm II, according to your story, blushed furiously and left the room, only to return later and assail Mackensen for the latter's failure to appear in uniform. Thereupon the Field Marshal is alleged to have repeated his former statement in effect...
...conciliation, the diplomats were even busier achieving a direct break between Bolivia and Paraguay. At the Bolivian seat of Government, La Paz, the Paraguayan Charge d'Affaires, Senor Elias Ayala, presented a request that there be no "repetition of the violation of Paraguayan territory by a Bolivian force." Thereupon the Bolivian Foreign Office replied that "in view of this insolent attitude" on the part of Paraguay, "you (the Paraguayan Minister) must leave this capital on the train which leaves Viachi Station at four p. m." Within a few hours the Paraguayan Government similarly kicked the Bolivian Minister...
...recalled that "the Officers of Arms habited in their tabards and attended by the Sergeants at Arms shall assemble at St. James's Palace and there proceed to the balcony in Friary Court" with the six Heralds-Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester†-thereupon trumpeteers sound a "fanfare" and the proclamation is first read by the Garter Principle King of Arms, at present Sir Henry Farnham Burke...
Shortly policemen cleared the gallery. The local Chief of Police arrived and personally assured Author-Producer Hasenclever that the situation was now under control. Thereupon the theatre was aired, the curtain rose, and Marriages Are Made in Heaven played to conclusion before a few orchestra-seaters who had daringly straggled back, and many a policeman...
...were apt pupils, useful aides in Drew's grim wrangle with Commodore Vanderbilt. Between them they trimmed the old war-horse in the Erie Railroad deal, and escaped melodramatically across the river (state line) with six millions of his greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner...