Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council heard a preliminary report on educational conditions in Polish Upper Silesia where there is a large "German minority." Controversy spirals up from the complaints of Germans that their children are being forced to learn Polish, and the retort of Poles that the students really are Polish and that it would merely be pampering their misguided German parents to educate these children in German...
...though in timely retort to Lenten castigation of woman's vanity (see p. 22) the American Chemical Society last week summarized the wholesale value of cosmetics produced last year in 600 U. S. factories. The total, exclusive of some $5,000,000 worth of perfumes, and greases imported from France, was $141,488,000. Items...
...Labor is entrusted by England with the task . . . of substituting the statesmanship of peace and productive work for the [British] Tory statesmanship of imperialism, war and Byzantine glory." Churchill Explodes. Though the British Government could, of course, take no official notice of Chen's deliberate insult, an explosive retort was made ex officio by Chancellor Winston S. Churchill of the British Exchequer, who compared Chen to A. J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed ringleader of the British Coal Strike (TIME, May 10 to Nov. 29). Cried Arch-Tory Churchill: "Last year we had Mr. Cook. This year we have Mr. Chen...
...Vare, winner in the great Republican slush-fund primary of last May. Piqued, Republican Manager William L. Mellon, nephew of the Secretary of the Treasury, called upon Senator Norris to go back home, to leave Keystoners to attend to their own business. Democrats deemed this a very weak retort from such an able man as Mr. Mellon to such a keen debater as Senator Norris, on such a vital subject as "corruption...
...Smith. Boston lawyer Smith, lauded and feted a fortnight ago by effusively grateful Hungarians (TIME, July 5) made the retort courteous and gallant last week by returning to the Hungarian Government a cheque for $100,000 which was tendered him as his well-earned salary for two years of unremittent labor. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen of Hungary declared himself unable to find words in which to praise fitly such generosity from a man known to be far from rich. Straightway the cheque was deposited as "The Jeremiah Smith Hungarian Scholarship Fund." Every year two Hungarian students will travel memorially...