Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...client did steal the Brooklyn Bridge, the city didn't need the thing, anyhow." Among his achievements is securing the acquittal of a political friend charged with being the father of an illegitimate child. The able lawyer's "women folks" object to his consorting with politically influential bums, whereupon he beseeches them "not to go over that ground again. Business is business." But in the last act, his own cherished sister is in trouble, and on account of one of these very same friends. So Lawyer Connell learns his lesson, makes a good resolution just before he goes...
...Hameln (not Hamlin) Germany, which, says legend, was plagued with rats in 1284. A strange piper in motley lured the beasts into the Weser where they drowned. Thinking him a sorcerer, the citizens refused him his pay, whereupon he piped the children of Hameln all away, "into a mountain." Possible basis of truth: the 13th Century Children's Crusade...
Polykushka, however, is showing. Its simple story is the tragedy of a 19th Century serf, a drunkard and a petty thief. His mistress forgives him a serious larceny, provided he swear on the Cross to mend his ways. This the poor wretch solemnly does, whereupon, to prove her faith in him, the benefactress despatches him to bring a purse of rubles from the village. In the course of the errand, the money is accidentally lost. The miserable serf hangs himself from a rafter in the barn, while an honest traveler returns the money found along the roadside, to the owner...
...determination to take advantage of every circumstance Fortune throws his way. Apprised of his father's approaching assassination, he assumes a "hands off" attitude, profits by another's crime. But, in the end, his "philosophy" is revealed to him as a mere ra- tionalization of the beastly Karamazov nature, whereupon his tower of reason topples into madness. With two love stories, these three threads are woven into an intricate stage pattern, directed by Jacques Copeau, who came to the U. S. for that special purpose, enacted by a cast including Alfred Lunt, Clare Eames, Lynn Fontanne, Dudley Digges, George Gaul...
...were lost," related Mrs. Osborn, "in contemplation of that portrait, and after a few minutes' silence Professor Osborn said 'Sargent, you have captured a quattrocento mystic, a saint, a Saint Francis of Assisi.' Whereupon Sargent, in the ebullience of youth, literally jumped from the floor, saying, 'Osborn, do you see that in that face? That's what...