Word: retort
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...carrying it as fact. These qualities and the loyalty that they inspire in the Post-Dispatch's staff caused Editor Ross once to write a sentence which he could well have repeated last week: "To say that the Post-Dispatch . . . had a soul is to risk a cynical retort; but how can one better convey the idea...
...Clarence Darrow and his special board on the operations of NRA as they affected the small industrialist and businessman was being mimeographed. Also being mimeographed under guard were the dissenting report of John F. Sinclair of Manhattan, newspaper financial columnist and member of the Darrow board, and the caustic retort of General Johnson...
...professor of Economics at Columbia to join the New Deal. As Assistant Secretary of Agriculture he has been drawing $7,500 per year (less 10% Federal pay cut); as Undersecretary he will be paid $10,000 (less 10%). Another reason was the President's obvious intention to retort to the clamorous criticism of this Brain Truster by some special mark of public preference for him and his services...
Hard-shelled old conservatives glare askance at today's young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call...
Under the crossed banners of the American Institute of Physics and the New York Electrical Society in Manhattan last week met three famed men of Science, with many a lesser luminary, to retort for their profession. One was Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other was Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. The third was Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories. In a telegram to the meeting President Roosevelt took a nicely neutral position: "The value to civilization of scientific thought and research cannot be questioned. . . . The idea that Science is responsible...