Word: whereupon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...undersigned was . . . apprehended for speeding. It was Saturday afternoon and the judge . . . was not in the city for the weekend so . . . I wrote a letter to the judge and he fixed bail at $15. Whereupon I wrote another letter and quoted the above axiom and he raised the bail...
...Second Avenue, was farmed out by his widowed mother to a German baker named Gus Schmall. He went to school for a while, ran off to sea, grew up and began having a chronic dream. In the dream Little Joe -now Big Joe-waved his hairy paw, whereupon the great ports of New York, Boston, Marseilles, San Francisco, Antwerp were paralyzed. All over the world shipping was paralyzed. Then the President of the U.S. called Joe and said: "Joe, you have paralyzed the world by a wave of your hand. What do you want?" Said Joe (in the dream): "More...
...main square of the island's capital, Saint-Denis. He was interrupted by a group which included Paul Verges, son of Reunion's Communist Deputy. According to the M.R.P. paper L'Aube, the hecklers rattled nails in empty kettles and banged iron spoons against pots & pans. Whereupon De Villeneuve turned on his tormentors and cried: "If you have any questions to ask, ask them in a proper way." Verges yelled back "Yes. How does the candidate like this?" Whipping out a revolver, he shot De Villeneuve through the heart...
...emissaries came from Arabia's Ibn Saud (the new King's old enemy) nor from the Soviet Union (which regards the new British-sponsored state with suspicion). Abdullah I made a polite speech from the throne, carefully avoiding most of the Middle East's hottest issues, whereupon the court and guests proceeded to Marka airfield to review Trans-Jordan's British-trained Arab Legion. Its leader, Glubb Pasha (occidental title: Brigadier John Bagot Glubb, D.S.O., O.B.E.) stood next to His Majesty on the sun-scathed reviewing stand, picturesquely martial in a spiked helmet, with a long...
...with a bunch of magazines he was selling. ... He came in and sat with me for half an hour and we had quite a talk about books and reading generally. At the end of our conversation he told me ... he would like to give me something he greatly valued. Whereupon he unpinned a badge he was wearing, which carried the words 'MacArthur for President,' and pinned it on the lapel of my coat. [Thereafter] when the boy passed my room, I proudly displayed the badge; when anyone else came along, I took evasive action with a pocket handkerchief...