Word: retort
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...Gleefully the Press printed each bit of circumstantial evidence, each fiery retort. But one important bit of Myrtle Sands's discovery, Mae West could not deny: the names of the bride's parents in the Milwaukee certificate-John West and Matilda Dilker-were indeed the names of the parents of America's Sweethot...
Thus the peace bluff of Adolf Hitler was officially called. His retort, based on canny intuition that the Great Powers would not fight, was to seize even more than they had offered to barter. Instead of limited German rearmament, Der Reichsführer proclaimed unlimited rearmament, decreed compulsory recruiting for an army of over half a million Germans and again professed peace (TIME, March...
Since Britain has been slated to play the role of honest broker between Germany, France and Russia in the proposed Eastern Locarno Peace effort (TIME, Feb. 18), His Majesty's Government found this week that they must take whatever initiative had to be taken in retort to Adolf Hitler. Visibly perturbed, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon rushed to London from a holiday in South Wales...
...Quick to retort to the Holy Father was Rev. Ilsley Boone, executive secretary of the International Nudist Conference. "A careful re-reading," said he in Manhattan, "suggests that the Pontiff was not attacking American nudism, since no authenticated case of wantonness or immorality has been cited against the organized movement in this country. . . . He refers to a 'cult' indulging in wantonness, and the American movement, no matter what else it may be, is certainly not a 'cult'. . . . Its leadership here includes members of the Protestant clergy and Catholic laymen...
...after car drives up to the house where Julian is going to dinner; the doorman respectfully opens each door, no one emerges, the car drives on. No one says anything, no one is surprised. Oldsters may object that if this is surrealism, so is Alice in Wonderland. Surrealists may retort that in Alice there is nothing fishy...