Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same fault as the out-of-date Carioca and Continental : it looks too hard for the general public and too easy for Astaire and Rogers. Astaire at last drops all pretense of being a psychiatrist and hypnotizes Ginger by the plain old-fashioned method of waggling his fingers; whereupon they dance once more and everything turns out all right...
...This is not a punitive investigation," declared Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, chairman of the joint Congressional-Executive Monopoly Investigation, last week. Whereupon the committee began planning its probing of the steel, rubber, cement and milk-marketing industries, and many a Big Businessman felt none too sure of the literalness of Chairman O'Mahoney's assertion. This week, something of a sedative for nervous executives was administered by the Brookings Institution in Washington, which published the fifth volume of its famed series of studies of the basic economic maladjustments in U. S. industry. The first four volumes...
...band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development in deposit banking in the last quarter-century...
...announced she would pay $500 to have the captain beaten up. The assistant cook discovered she was pregnant and headed upriver by dog team. The chief engineer left for the Nome gold fields, and on Christmas, after gifts had been exchanged, the mate blacked a steward's eye, whereupon another steward stabbed the one whose eye was blacked. The captain tried to choke the mate; the crew refused to work; the general manager fired the captain and, when the Yukoner finally reached Dawson next summer, the crew-learned that the gold rush had shifted to Nome (2,000 miles...
...Whereupon he walked out confidently...