Word: retorting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insult-Extraordinary, you repair again to the Insulter's home, and standing upon the door sill, disembowel yourself with a sharp knife. This is the final retort (hara-kiri), to which there can be no reply...
...have been furnishing you for the most part with rationalizations. If you ask me why abnormal psychology is at Harvard, perhaps the true answer, is that; "we're here because we're here". And if you ask me for what good are we, I might retort in the words of Benjamin Franklin: "What good is a new born babe?" an "enfant terrible" though...
...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
Fighting mad Christians were able to retort to Frankfurt's too-smart critics that the Savior once seized a heavy whip and laid valiantly about him, until he had driven the last moneychanger out of the Temple...
...FRONT PAGE-A savagely melodramatic comedy of Chicago police-court reporters who stoop to scoop and who are masters of the retort curt (TIME, June...