Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Faced by this project for speedy disarmament, could League slow-pokers retort successfully to the plausible if specious Soviet plan? Could they discredit it, tear it to tatters, and at the same time justify before public opinion the League's slow, plodding ways? Such a task required _a Cicero - or, as Anglo-Saxons said, later in the week - a Cushendun...
Next day, two leading Viennese newspapers sounded the irrepressible retort of small Austria. The conservative Neues Wiener Tageblatt rapped: "The arguments of Il Duce are the arguments of the strong, but not strong arguments." The liberal Neue Freie Presse exclaimed rhetorically: "Your words, Signor Mussolini, can only mean that you consider yourself strong and us weak. . . . Then why refuse us the only right which the weak have-namely, the right to complain...
...smart retort to, "Do you want a fight?" is still, of course, "Sir, I am a Tolstoyan...
Last week, however, it was revealed at London that Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), although an apostle of religious humility and the other cheek, once made a sharp retort to Bernard Shaw. The occasion was the submission by Mr. Shaw of several of his works for criticism to the Count. Tolstoy's letter in reply was released, in London, by erudite Mr. Aylmer Maude, now collecting and translating Tolstoyana...
Geologer Willis chanced to be away from California, lecturing in Ohio, when, last fortnight, Geologer Hill's retort professional was given "to the world" by the Los Angeles Graphic (society weekly). Whether or not the world heard, the Graphic made sure that Geologer Willis would hear. Of him it said, with good-natured Californian venom: "God must have tipped him off ... the incondite ravings of a mischief maker. ... It is generally believed that Dr. Willis' service to the fire insurance underwriters was substantially rewarded...