Word: retort
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...Croydon, London's airport, and adjourned merrily for refreshments of a pre-prohibition character. They are tired-out and nervous. The last few flights seemed to have worn them down more than the previous 18,000 miles. Certain differences of temperament and opinion have brought sharp criticism and retort from formerly friendly lips. And the uncertainty as to further advance is harrowing. Also they are broke. The Government allowed them $8-a-day expenses on the world flight and they will have to account for every dollar to recover. Yet in London alone they spent $300 apiece for their...
...first ballot of the selection committee, of "The Changelings", which was written by a Yale man. The courtesy of consultation might have been extended to the committee; but the fact that its choice was rejected is not in itself a valid reason for all the innuendo and retort which has subsequently arisen...
...becomes hard to guess at what he really aims and hard to believe that he himself knows at what he aims. . . . He shows a vein of intense personal hostility to the Prime Minister, whose quieter but galling gibes?never omitted ?had challenged a retort...
...America, the fairy tale industry lacks material with which to work, although George Washington and his clever retort with reference to falsehoods furnishes a not unsuitable starting point. The folk-lore of parent countries has not as yet been acclimated. But Professor William Lyon Phelps reputed reaction to "Peter Pan" (See Donald Ogden Stewart) illustrates plainly the appeal which these fables retain even for such highly intelligent subjects, Their magnetic, vitalizing influence on the masses cannot be overestimated...
...real cause of the sudden decline was undoubtedly the "technical position" of the market. After all Mr. Livermore is a better judge of the stock market than of national affairs. This was shown when he advocated more business men in our government, only to meet Senator Lenroot's retort that there had been several prominent business men rather too much mixed up in government affairs lately...