Word: retorted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup* sued by Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzue) for $35,000-odd (she took his gifts and then ditched him, he complained), made an interesting retort. She had married him once, and living with him was "too dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous...
...stop the atomic war NOW," by Americans United for World Government; "Let's stop feeding inflation," by the N.A.M.; "An appeal to the peoples of the world," by the Rollins College Conference on World Government; the Zionists' "Palestine ... or they perish," the Arabs' retort, "Arabs want peace"; a blurb for Birobidjan, Russia's-"Pearl of the Far East" for Jews; "An open letter to Congress," by Sponsors of Government Action against Cancer; "Shall we help the Communists to crucify Christian Spain?" by the Missouri Knights of Columbus...
...Short Retort. Management's delegates could hardly believe their ears. Said N.A.M. President Ira Mosher: "I would give a year's budget if John had made that speech publicly." Said Monsanto Chemical's William M. Rand: "I've had the wrong slant on John Lewis...
Irrepressible Jimmy Doolittle had a retort to that one too: "If delay is the objective, such a suggestion will attain it. If sound, prompt action is the objective, the experience of the Baker Board indicates that you may get something less than wisdom...
...feeble old character on ITMA answers any question with the line: "I'll have to ask me Dad," which is now a stock retort of anyone evading a question...