Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrible catastrophe as mass-impotence (some Frenchmen won't smoke American cigarets because they believe them to contain saltpetre), the movement caught the popular fancy and was militantly endorsed by the rest of the Paris papers. At this point Pernod Fils is supposed to have paid off the publisher, whereupon he retracted as best he could, but too late, as soon thereafter the Government took advantage of the public temper and banned the sale of absinthe. The moral of the story seems to be that soon thereafter the publisher was caught in another blackmailing scheme and sent to prison...
...saying that compared to Mr. O'Brien he was a more fledgling, etc. etc. Following this, our own James Roosevelt '30 got up to make his contribution to the gathering: "If the gentleman from the Class of 1921 considers himself to be a fiedgling, what must I be?" Whereupon came loud and spontaneous cries from the back of the room...
Another incident to add to the Lowell tradition la told of the President Emeritus in connection, with his deafness. After the service at a certain church he went up to the minister and apologized for not being able to come oftener but that he didn't hear very well. Whereupon the minister suggested that he sit in a pew in which an acousticon had been installed, "Oh, no, no," President Lowell replied, "it's nothing physical, It's nothing physical...
...condemn me there will be blood." Whereupon the judges raised his sentence to three years for contempt of court...
Applicants were made to remove their coats and shoes, and in ten minutes 125 facts and measurements were taken, whereupon the subjects replaced their shoes, on their revived feet, and went their ways rejoicing. The cards bearing the data received were then filed for the future compiling of results...