Word: retort
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...Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity of the husband. Czarist censors banned this story as immoral, which drove Chekhov to retort: "I have formed ... a Society for the Promotion of Cuckoldry, [and] have been elected president...
That moved West Virginia's Democratic Senator Matthew Neely to remark that Gillette "in effect, told us to go to the birds." The success of this retort inspired Neely to still further heights. He suggested that the Senate borrow from the late Humorist Stephen Leacock...
...last week it was almost impossible for Americans to talk about anything-even outrageous coffee prices-without having a cup of coffee.. They consumed coffee at such a rate (5$ billion gallons a year) that if all of a year's consumption were brewed in a Bunyanesque retort and decanted into the Niagara River, it would take 15 hours to tumble over the lip of Niagara Falls (American side). If the somnolent Moslem monks had known that awesome statistic, they would probably have stayed awake and prayed very hard, without the help of coffee...
...attempt to have him convicted of treason. He feigned shock, horror, innocence, fear of assassination, and sleep; he corrected the prosecutor's grammar and syntax, wowed the courtroom crowd with witty ad libs, laughed at the court's most damaging evidence, and finally developed a most economical retort that required no effort...
...football community are absurd and not worthy. of comment." This statement reminded the University that the students and officials who devote their time to the Harvard football team form a close-knit community with a long and proud tradition. But insofar as it implied this case was unique, the retort was dead wrong. In the last two days it has become unmistakably clear that there is something rotten in the "football community...