Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Inflation, No Joke. First act of Chancellor von Papen was to confer with Dr. Hans Luther, President of the Reichsbank, and issue a communique that there would be no inflation, whereupon German securities slumped...
...That for your work," said Mr. Kingsbury, sweeping all of Mr. Fleishhacker's papers to the floor. Whereupon the burly banker arose with a yell, grabbed a cane and, hatless, chased the President of Standard Oil out of the bank and down the street...
...their frugality is legend in Indiana. The Teetor offices are in an old-fashioned frame house on the same block as the factory. Once a representative of a Manhattan investment house went to interview them and broke his pencil while taking notes. He threw it into a wastepaper basket whereupon a Teetor dived for it, remarking, "We can use this around here...
...base Russian colonel is denuding Actress Desiree Tabor, a soprano with whom Mr. Robertson is in love. She is an Austrian countess. Somewhere during this part of the proceedings a file of Muscovites tramp in, begin singing "Light up! Take out your pipe and fill it to the brim-" whereupon they all start smoking cigarets. Marching By, in spite of its unconsciously jovial libretto, should get credit for some pleasant melodies by Jean Gilbert...
...took bullion-room gold to keep him dredging up wrecks. He told the king "for the purposes I have in mind, the sum of four or five hundred thousand francs is neither here nor there. My discoveries and myself must be endowed with a generous hand. . . ." Parsimonious Louis declined, whereupon the money was raised for Mesmer by private subscription. Mesmeromania became the rage. He continued practicing, though without official recognition, until the French Revolution drove him, discredited and poor, out of France into obscurity. On the shores of Lake Constance he still worked on, mesmerized his own declining years with...