Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trial was ordered for Captain Dreyfus, who was brought back to France after nearly four years on He du Diable. But it was again a military trial and another verdict of guilty was brought in. This time, however, the court found extenuating circumstances, reduced the sentence and recommended mercy. Whereupon President Loubet of France granted Captain Dreyfus a pardon...
...first that "Broadway may seem on the level, but it's a steep grade when you try to make it." It is Kitten who pushes him up. Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes the society influenza and marries the woman, who certainly did right by him. Although film followers will...
That afternoon in the Stadium G. McN. Gates '27 will deliver the Ivy Oration. This will be followed by cheering and singing by the Glee Club. Then the class banner will be presented to the Class of 1930, whereupon a confetti battle will try and mask the appearance of the Stadium in a Venetian carnival atmosphere...
...Whereupon Mr. Perovich grumbled, protested. He preferred a death sentence to a life sentence. And, in 1925, a Kansas District Judge ruled that the presidential right to annul a sentence (by pardon) did not include the right to alter it (by commutation) without the prisoner's consent. Thus mercy became high-handed, clemency a usurpation. Furthermore, since Mr. Perovich was being illegally held, his detention could not continue, so he was released under a habeas corpus writ. At large, Mr. Perovich opened a barber shop, has spent the last two years law-abidingly wielding shears and razor...
...Whereupon, a spectator was heard to say: "The conceit of that man [Tilden], referring to Hunter as the junior member of that team...