Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ticket-shooting trick that gave free passes to baseball games and other exhibitions their slang name of "Annie Oakleys." President Ban Johnson of the American Baseball League once caught a man who had rented out his season pass. The pass was found to be full of holes, whereupon President Johnson made a remark, the aptness of which his subordinates never forgot: "Looks like Annie Oakley'd been shootin...
...effect that if Senator James E. Watson kept on being a good friend of the Klan he would some day be President of the U. S. Then he would appoint one William F. Zumbrunn (a man who "wines and dines" with Senators and their wives) as Ambassador to Mexico. Whereupon, Senator Watson called Senator Reed to his bedside in an Indianapolis hospital, informed him that it was all a great lie. Said the Senator from Indiana...
...Genoa, Neb., high-school girls complained that their assembly room was chilly, whereupon the school authorities decreed that girls from the sixth grade up must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees, walking or sitting. Hazel O'Brien, 16, spunky, would have none of the rule. Relatives backed her and a legal action hung upon the school board's next move. Said one of Hazel O'Brien's less haughty schoolmates: "We'll look like the girls of the horse-and-buggy days. The boys will be drifting to other towns for dates...
...more serious hours the operetta is heavily sentimental and full of bad melodrama. By the end of the first act, the shy, unworldly prince is gazing moonily at Kathie--whereupon they both exhale noisly. By the end of the second act, the heir of Karlsberg is screaming in a tenor voice, "O God! I won't--I can't go home!" But he does. Forty minutes later he screams even louder, "O God! I'm trapped--I'm caught--ALONE!" It is not clear whether his preference for the little lady back in Heidleberg is based on the fact that...
...answers with puckery brow. "I've not worn darned socks for years-I buy the very cheapest and whenever I see a hole in the toe, I throw them into the wastepaper basket." "You'll never do that again as long as you live," says Perella. Whereupon, the Fiat with royal purple flying whisks them off to Paris...