Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could not get by the ballot-a parliamentary majority. The law is called the State Defense Act and prohibits Stefan Raditch, "stormy petrel of the Balkans," leader of the Croatian autonomists, from entering into arrangements with foreign countries. Raditch had become a close friend of the Moscow autocrats; whereupon, after mature thought, Premier Pashitch snapped his fingers and the law became operative...
...Manhattan, last week, counsel for the New York Herald-Tribune employed much the same arguments used by Mr. Baker and his colleague, to win acquittal for their clients before Judge John C. Knox and a Federal Grand Jury. Whereupon the prosecution (i. e., the Government), in order finally to test the law, had the Herald-Tribune reindicted, using as grounds the tax figures of individuals other than those named in the first indictment. The re-indictment was quashed perfunctorily by Judge Knox, as the prosecution intended it should be; and the Government was free to appeal this second case...
...Jenufa's cheek with a knife that her beauty may be blemished and his brother find her fair no longer. Stew Stewa falls in love with another lady. Laca calls on the stepmother. He would marry the girl himself, he says, but damme, he cannot stomach the child. Whereupon the stepmother, on a black winter's night, drugs Jenufa, steals out hugger-mugger into the dark and drowns the bastard in an icy brook. On the day of the marriage feast, the ice thaws, peasants discover a disfigured bundle in the sedge. Step-mother...
Princess Juliana of Holland is 15. She goes to school. Lately came a holiday, whereupon Juliana hied herself to Amsterdam with a lady-in-waiting. There was the world yet to see. Princess Juliana...
Submission. All week long the British authorities in Cairo conferred with Premier Ziwar over the British demands as contained in the ultimatum delivered by Lord Allenby. In the end the Egyptian Premier agreed to accept all the British demands. Whereupon the British evacuated the Alexandria Customs House which they had seized when Premier Zaghlul refused to accept in toto the British ultimatum. Lord Allenby, British High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, reported the situation "in good order," conditions "easier and satisfactory...