Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...females," but here was one with whom he could laugh, play, tumble, tease, poetize, and only once was there anything between Suzanne and him like what Ewald, jealous, was bold enough to insinuate. Wolf was a fighter, too: he promptly challenged Ewald but parents suppressed their pistol-duel, whereupon Wolf burst into sobs-"like a child"-on his mother's bosom. Fights Wolf did not provoke with Dietrich who, provocative, was a little stronger, a little older, and who peeped exaggeratedly when Wolf and Suzanne made their little love that left him out. ... All in a world of their...
...after a rum chase last fortnight (TIME, June 24). He had warned Agent Cox to "go easy with the gun" on previous occasions, had filed a report censuring his reckless misuse of firearms. When Eugster was shot, Agent Jacques remarked that his complaint against Cox had been borne out, whereupon he was reprimanded by his superior for discussing the case. Last week he quit the U. S. service with this explanation...
...president of the Chicago Theological Seminary; as Moderator of the National Congregational Council. Reason: serious illness.* Dr. Carl Safiord Patton, homiletic and practical theology professor, was elected to succeed Dr. Davis to the presidency. But he declined, preferring instead the pastorate of Los Angeles' First Congregational Church, whereupon his 1,750 new parishioners assembled, cheered in unison, voted a new million-dollar church...
President Hoover refused to become entangled in the legislative details of a farm relief bill. He pointed to his St. Louis campaign speech for a general outline of his wishes, whereupon the Senate committee had it solemnly read into its hearings...
...essential to democracy: at which Rowe replied that "the ordinary, common man is common enough" and so unfit to judge questions of fact. J. E. Willard '30, attacking from a new angle, felt that "the jury system makes law the instrument of man, not man the instrument of law"; whereupon McBride announced that "there is no danger of tyranny today". H. A. Wolff '29, summing up, pleaded that changes might be advisable, but not complete abolishment...