Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordered the company to negotiate only with the majority of its workers. Houde refused. NRA took away Houde's Blue Eagle. In September the Houde case made even more headlines when the National Manufacturers Association notified its membership to ignore NLRB's decision on majority rule. The board's retort was to prepare a complaint against the Houde company and send it to the Department of Justice for action...
...last week rumors had crystallized into a figure: "The Satevepost has lost 400,000 readers." That was the signal for a ringing retort in full-page newspaper advertisements by the magazine. Excerpts...
...posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya Pravda recorded an evident conviction among Communist Youth that the tempo of their life blights marriage and makes proper child rearing well-nigh impossible. To this Godless Yaroslavsky made truculent retort: "It is entirely up to our Young Communists themselves! They must so organize their work and social activities that they will find time for bestowing upon each other that deep and sincere love that makes life worth living. ... By all means get married! . . . Not only should Young Communists marry...
Refusing to be catalogued and classified as "a nice lot and bright," "meek," "Bohemian," "hearty and robust," and "swanky," the college girls retort with epithets and descriptions frank enough to disturb the most indifferent men. How disillusioned and perplexed must be the Freshmen who discovers a stupid Radcliffe lass or a Bohemian Wellesleyian. What tragedy and grief to find the Guide had erred. His weighty problem still unsolved where can he turn for guidance and initiation? The dank silence of his lonely room give forth no answer and his brooding only lessens his faith in humankind. Most miserable...
...carrying it as fact. These qualities and the loyalty that they inspire in the Post-Dispatch's staff caused Editor Ross once to write a sentence which he could well have repeated last week: "To say that the Post-Dispatch . . . had a soul is to risk a cynical retort; but how can one better convey the idea...