Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just let the fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where four indomitable policemen waited on the quay. Nine foreign members of the crew and one Dutch sailor were arrested as agitators...
...Duce Benito Mussolini has never been one to bow to mass opinion, nor is he above giving the retort discourteous to those who dare criticize his actions. Five weeks ago there were murmurs of disapproval when he jolted the entire Fascist organization with the biggest shake-up in years, deposed ministers right and left and assumed two Cabinet posts himself. The hopes of those who felt that Fascism should have outgrown the necessity for such moves were withered last week by Il Duce's announcement that he was thinking seriously of taking over three more Cabinet posts, the Ministries...
Minority Leader Snell went into the well to make the Republican retort: "I've listened to the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee's speech of acceptance. ... He has made a more direct appeal for class distinction than has been made this session. If the Speaker ever made a demagogic appeal, he made that appeal here today...
Governor Roosevelt smilingly refused to answer Secretary Hyde. He would retort directly to no one but President Hoover. But through the Democratic National Committee, Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee declared: "Secretary Hyde understands more about politics than he does about agriculture. . . . 'Farmer' Hyde has an apparent idea that reforestation consists of going to a nursery, buying a seedling and planting it. He overlooks entirely the great problems of flood control . . . soil erosion . . . preparation of the soil . . . drainage." The American Forestry Association rebuked Secretary Hyde for viewing reforestation "in the narrow sense of merely planting trees...
Though the German said of the Young Plan that all its promises have failed to come true, adding that Germany can pay no more Reparations, there was no quarrel. The Frenchman's equally blunt retort that Germany can and must pay something, was taken in good part by Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. Suddenly this onetime officer in the Kaiser's Army electrified Lausanne by proposing casually and unofficially "in American"* a military alliance between Germany and France...