Word: retorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...party and no political mind; Republican and Democratic Clubs have few members and fewer present at meetings. If we become interested in politics it is not as a profession but as a diversion, and by accident. The answer "Politics" to the question of a purpose in life brings the retort. "Yes, but what are you going...
...sees much knavery and much folly. That gaudium certaminis which we all seek in athletic contests and in games like chess and whist the lawyer finds in daily life. The successful cross-examination of a witness, the sudden and surprising turn which a case may take, the quick retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they occur from day to day, the victories when they come, the unmerited defeats, lend a constant zest to life and are pleasant to remember, for even of defeats the lawyer finds the prophecy true "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit...
...hundreds of men whom we believe more truly represent the sentiments of undergraduates than the noisy group who refuse to see the beam in their own eye, and the reply of whose champion is only in truth a corroboration of Dr. Eliot's criticisms. Instead of a crawling retort, let us frankly admit that we share the regret that an element among us does exist so lost to any sense of personal decorum that they constantly imperil the reputation of their chosen college and drag its fair name in the mire--only qualifying the admission by the demonstrable statement that...