Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...films to exhibitors sight unseen. Enlisted in Allied's fight against block-selling are church groups, women's clubs and parent-teacher associations which believe that one result is the inclusion among the pictures booked of offensive films which the independent owner is compelled to take. Producers retort that this is untrue because block-booking contracts provide a 10 to 15% cancellation privilege. Great advantage of block-booking from the producers' point of view is that it gives them a constant, steady, measurable market for all the films they make. Independents retort that this dominance forces them...
...Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy, whom she considers hopeless materialists, blind guides of their misled generation. Heaven, to one of Arnold Bennett's characters, she has said, would be "an eternity of bliss spent in the very best hotel in Brighton." (Bennett's characteristic retort was that Virginia Woolf's novels "seriously lack vitality.") And of H. G. Wells: "What more damaging criticism can there be both of his earth and of his Heaven than that they are to be inhabited here and hereafter by his Joans and his Peters?" But Virginia Woolf...
...Weather Bureau is by no means the U. S. pioneer in this meteorological technique. In fact the Bureau's critics, of which it always has plenty, have reproached it for not making greater use of the method once its value was demonstrated. The Bureau has a quick retort: it is doing what it can on its exiguous budget ($3,861,000 for the current year...
...once, the burden of their song was praise: praise for Pushkin, Russia's No. 1 poet. To most U. S. readers, Pushkin is still only a funny name. Much of his poetry has been translated, but most of it reads like doggerel.* To that the all- Russian retort is: non-Russians will have to take Pushkin on faith, be satisfied with the Red-&-White assurance that Pushkin is indeed Russia's Poet. Last week the circumstantial evidence in Pushkin's favor was further bolstered up by a scholarly, 484-page biography, by a critical manifesto by four...
Indirectly Sir Samuel implied that the Moscow Comintern was behind this naval sabotage and in retort the House's lone Communist was loud in denying that the British Communist Party would ever take inhumane steps against the British Royal Navy such that "seamen might drown!'' Sabotage by British Reds, he insisted, is purely political...