Word: whereat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Very Last Minute actors dressed as British tourists have been nightly "shown around the world," have boasted at sight of each new marvel that something better of the same kind exists in the United Kingdom. On reaching Venice the guide exclaimed. "How fairylike is this Venetian night!" Whereat a Briton stoutly boasted, "The Prince of Wales is even more...
...since the Federal Parliament has authorized tax seizures, Sir Philip protested the circulation by Premier Lang of a letter ordering officials of New South Wales to obstruct the seizures. This letter Sir Philip called "illegal," told Mr. Lang he could either withdraw his letter or resign as Premier, whereat he promptly resigned...
...Vaccaro. "Have you got a match?" they asked. When John Vaccaro said "No," they leaped out, knocked him down, kicked him about the sidewalk, shot him in the hand. An hour later, Samuel Saulkind, waiting for a street car, was asked, "Have you got a match?" "No," he said. Whereat the trio fell upon Samuel Saulkind, kicked him about the sidewalk, fractured his skull. Approaching Frank Thornton on his way home, the three autoists queried, "Have you got a match?" When he replied "No," they belabored him grievously, left him with a fractured skull, both legs broken, dying. Myer Goldberg...
Amid a fist fight in the Chamber of Deputies, confidence in this Cabinet was voted 309 to 262, whereat a spectator in the gallery dropped dead "of excitement" (said the Chamber physician). Later the new Cabinet will face the Senate, which overthrew the previous (Laval) Cabinet. Lying extremely low as Minister of Labor, Pierre Laval was obliged, as his first duty, to report that Frenchmen "totally unemployed" increased 19,000 last week to a grand total...
...Nicaean Council, before East and West split) has there been held an Ecumenical Synod of the Orthodox Eastern Church. Next June at Mount Athos, Greece's monastic republic (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929), will be held a prosynod to lay the groundwork for an Ecumenical Synod (probably in 1934) whereat the theological problems of twelve centuries, including Anglican unity, will be deliberated...