Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Court Retort. In a Baton Rouge court a low-voiced witness was urged to speak up. He smiled brightly: "Hello, Judge...
...well-known wit. Once three of us, undergraduates still,--of, whom Kittredge was one and I another-were accused of doing something required "a good deal of gall." Whereupon said "Kitty,"-"All Gaul is divided into three parts." I have often been credited with this coruscating retort...
...Professor Kittredge legends recounted in your Aug. 4 issue are orthodox and generally credited. But I am sure that the great teacher would resent having some of them stand without modification in your widely read columns. ... I once heard him deny publicly at Dartmouth the retort, "Who would examine me?" when asked why he had not taken the Ph.D. degree. "That would have been nonsense!" he exclaimed, and added humorously, "I don't think I could have passed an examination for that degree." About the Oxfordian who told him that the only man who could answer an obscure question...
...Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...