Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know all this," retort the bored pragmatists. "England is being selfish, naturally enough, and looking after her own interests, but who cares? Incidentally, and by the rarest of good fortune, she is also serving a noble cause. Ethiopia as a member of the League is entitled to protection. And Mussolini as the defier of international decency, is entitled to a good taking down...
...shall not be tired," came the indomitable old spellbinder's retort, "I shall not be tired, my friends, until I have redeemed such a person as the one who put that question...
...deal in particular: 1) Italy to hold her conquest of Ethiopia within moderate limits and in no case to attack the region of Lake Tana where the British Empire has vital interests; 2) Italy to endure without armed retort economic & financial sanctions which the League of Nations must impose or utterly lose face; 3) France and Britain to block the League from voting military or naval sanctions and participate in an "open door" exploitation of Ethiopia in their "spheres of influence"; 4) mutual understanding that there will be cheating all round on the "economic sanctions," with European States who have...
This drew a final British retort from the most potent statesman in Prime Minister Baldwin's Cabinet, lean, hook-nosed Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, frequently mentioned as a future Prime Minister. Speaking at Floors Castle in Scotland, Mr. Chamberlain asked for an even larger British Navy. "The dangerously low level to which our defenses have fallen has caused some to treat us contemptuously," said he. "This is not a tolerable situation. . . . Italian opinion has been led to regard Britain as a monster of hypocrisy and selfishness. This is not true...
Quick to suggest the obvious retort that the Union League Club meeting smelled of money were liberal papers like The Christian Century and Zion's Herald. The latter weekly printed an editorial which cited "forged telegrams" and "whispering campaigns" as "the diabolical methods used by the utility companies in their efforts to forestall legislation affecting them." Last week its editor, Lewis Oliver Hartman, received and printed a letter from Utilitarian Denman...