Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...playing of Saint-Saens' ghoulish Danse Macabre spelled death for one of its performers. Later Violist Jacques Tushinsky was struck and killed by a bus. Not until the orchestra was on its way back to the U. S. last week was Maestro Toscanini informed of the death. Whereupon the white-haired, 73-year-old conductor burst into tears, refused all nourishment but fruit juice...
Bread & Brandy. In Eire, members of the I. R. A. received instructions to go to Communion before May 24, whereupon the authorities of North Ireland got busy on a thorough Ulster roundup of suspects. They know that no Catholic Irishman will risk his life without first taking Communion bread...
This entire controversy reminds one very much of the following story: The automobile of a tourist motoring through Poland became stalled; he sent to the nearest town for a mechanic. The latter, on arriving, looked over the engine, gave it one hit with his hammer, whereupon it functioned perfectly. In response to the query as to what was due him, he asked ten zloty, to which the motorist said: "Surely not ten zloty for giving the car one hit with the hammer!" "Oh, no!" replied the mechanic "one zloty for hitting the motor, and nine zloty for knowing where...
Captain Tom Healey and Charley Brackett will share the duties on the slope. Healey will go the first four or five frames, whereupon Charley Brackett, who proved his hurling effectiveness against Cornell, is scheduled to take over and finish out the game...
Mainstays of the Communist press in the U. S. are the Daily Worker and the weekly New Masses. Last month the Department of Justice had the editors of both publications before a District of Columbia grand jury, whereupon they wailed that their rights (and the rights of the whole U. S. press) had been atrociously violated. Upshot: no indictment, but a strange performance by the Daily Worker...