Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...words, including blasphemy and obscenity, in U.S. novels. "Son-of-a-bitch" had quite a literary past, going back at least to Shakespeare (in King Lear). Owen Wister sounded it more discreetly in The Virginian (1902), where it was cloaked as "son-of-a -." The Virginian's ringing retort was well remembered: "When you call me that, smile." The only question was: Was it quite the proper phrase for the President to use in public, with or without smiling...
...political group (2.) I believe it an academic abuse of the first magnitude to make disparaging references to a local public official and to recommend the programme of a political group without affording opportunity for those who disagree with such a reference and the programme recommended to retort immediately before the audience to which the reference was made and the program recommended. Any student who demanded the right to harangue the group would, of course, been out of order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a order. (3.) The retort which would have sufficed, had a retort been...
...retort Friedman and Pierce claimed that there was no evidence to show that a civil rights act was either unconstitutional or impractical...
Apparently some things have not changed in 450 years. In "Whose Flu?" you report that the French call the current epidemic la grippe Italienne, while Italians retort by calling it influenza Francese [TIME...
...Retort Prosaic. A reserved man, full of the knowledge that any Washington official has to dodge his share of flying tomahawks, Forrestal made little effort to counter the attacks. Goaded, he finally prepared a long, prosaic letter to send Congressmen who received anxious and puzzled inquiries from radio listeners...