Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's condition is held to be serious, but not the occasion for immediate alarm. We have verified the former diagnosis and approved the present treatment." Whereupon the foreign specialists who were to receive as fees $1,250 each and expenses, departed...
...case the Plympton Street oarsmen were hitting smoothly downstream when, passing under the Cottage Farm Bridge, the coxwain noticed a small gear rising into the boat under the number four man. Whereupon short and a handy float were headed for and, in a hot sprint, reached just before submersion...
...Long Island Sound. Daughter Ellen (Miss Conklin) has an admirer so polite that he apologizes to Mrs. Murray because his late father, a judge, once jailed her for 30 days. Ellen pays little attention to him until he announces that he is sailing to take a job in Belgium, whereupon she decides that they owe themselves a week end alone before he leaves. When Mrs. Murray, horrified at this project, tries to dissuade her daughter, Ellen confounds her by bringing up an amorous episode from Mrs. Murray's past, discovered while Ellen was researching a thesis at college...
...This young woman went to the Harley establishment last spring, when she was three months pregnant. Because she had neglected to take out a Harley anti-birth policy, "Dr." Harley wanted to charge her $150 for the abortion. Her "friend," who accompanied her, haggled the charge down to $125, whereupon Anna Bartholomeo was promptly delivered of her embryo...
...than Morris, who was a radical from a strong sense of moral duty and an even stronger revulsion from the ugliness of industrialism. Morris was a "very great literary artist" but his tremendous vocabulary was often no help in describing uncongenial modern things. Shaw would suggest the right word, whereupon Morris would gasp with relief. Morris was infuriated with hecklers at debates, while Shaw courted them, so that Shaw would be put forward to demolish foolish questioners while Morris would retreat to the background, pulling his mustache and growling, "Damfool! Damfool!" Such assistance made Shaw feel as though...