Word: retort
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...angry retort, defending the Speech from the Throne, Attorney General Sir Thomas Inskip became the first British Minister to criticize President Roosevelt...
There is so little about that love, and yet the little means so much. Keats was but recovered from a first futile infatuation, Fanny Brawne was just eighteen. Her blonde and statuesque beauty jarred harshly with her fondness for a ready retort; her inclination to bandy a flirtatious word with any young Hussar in gold-frogging and scarlet did shocking violence to her Janoesque grace. She startled her friends with an interest in politics, and even translated French and German, so proving herself a dreadful "rattle...
Widespread complaints about the slowness of the $3,300,000,000 public works program to reach the spending stage drew a spirited retort from Secretary Ickes last week before a Chicago conference of mayors. Blaming municipalities for construction delays, the Public Works Administrator declared: "All we can do is to ask you to 'Get on your mark! Get set! Go!' We can give you the money but we can't make you borrow it from us. ... We're more liberal than any lender on a large scale since the beginning of the world...
...Depositors, fearful lest they lose by the receiver's lack of training, considered formally protesting his appointment. Haverhill's Democratic City Committee increased its political flavor by warmly endorsing it. Appeals to the State's Democratic bosses-Senator Walsh and Governor Ely-were met with the retort that it was impossible to interfere with the President...
Leather-lunged Big Bill could make no retort, no defense, since Soviet censorship closes down-smothering and airtight-around a fallen man. The explanation seemed to be that the Five-Year Plan period, when the Soviet Union's whole stress was on building, expansion and quantity (rather than quality) is now definitely over. Russia has entered a less exuberant phase in which she must nurse her railways and try to make her plants efficient. Blatant "drivers" like Big Bill are giving place to quiet specialists. After the shake-up last week Premier Molotov of the Soviet Union signed...