Word: retort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterness occurred at the Yale game in New Haven in 1940. At halftime things weren't quite so well organized then a group of three students rushed onto the field to present a playlet in which President Conant was represented as engaged in solitary military drill until a chemical retort was substituted for the gun he was carrying. The slogan of the group that put on the act was "Books, not Gups." Conant was not at the game, but he says now "If I had been it would have been hard to sit there. That's what I call unfair...
...eastern campaign manager: "For a candidate who was supposed to have political appeal, General Eisenhower has made a very sorry showing in New Jersey." But Governor Alfred Driscoll, elected as an Eisenhower delegate after a fierce anti-Driscoll campaign by the Taft forces, snapped out a sharp retort: "A loss by 150,000, in a comparatively small vote in an election conducted in horrible, weather, is certainly not a moral victory. It is a defeat. Mr. Hamilton is still using the same expressions that he used when his candidate, Landon, won two states...
Kefauver's retort was mild: "I may be a pet coon but I'll never be Mr. Crump's pet coon." A more imaginative friend clapped a coonskin cap on Kefauver's head at a luncheon rally. The gag grew until Kefauver eventually blossomed out in a coonskin cap haloed with electric lights. In the primary he polled 42,000 votes more than his nearest opponent...
Swordsticks & Umbrellas. He was a slim, tall youth, who quickly developed such a belly that, when asked by a lady in World War I why he was not "out at the front," he was able to retort: "Go round to the side, Madam, and you'll see that I am." When, enveloped in a vast cloak and toying with a swordstick, he sat his 300 pounds down to dream on a wayside bench, passers-by "either take me for the village idiot or for one of Harrod's delivery vans." He liked to believe that his life...
From his widow came a confident retort: nothing to it, really. "Jacques changed his name because his family was ashamed to have him in politics"; his father had wanted him to take up some respectable career like wine making. Jacques had rebelled and had gone into politics, using his underground resistance name...