Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...graduates, especially as the communication of "Graduate," who evidently has the athletic welfare of his alma mater at heart, was only a mild criticism and suggestion. Such criticisms can do no harm, and very often do much good, and certainly do not call for such a spiteful and childish retort...
...correspondent of the Hartford Courant writes, commenting on Josiah Quincy's "Figures of the Past:" "There are many anecdotes of Mr. Quincy's wit and readiness of retort among us. One of these which perhaps your readers have not heard relates to his remark to his father, the president of Harvard College, when he (the younger Quincy) was elected president of the Massachusetts Senate. 'You preside over boys,' said he, 'but I over...
...Acta Columbiana publishes a very sharp and pithy "condensed novel" by Smintheus, which is an apt retort to Yale arrogance and a witty satire upon malarial Princeton. The dark De Briggs, a rival of Fitz Clarence, in order to be revenged upon the young man, sends him a catalogue of Princeton College...