Word: retorting
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Under the impression that everything was rolling smoothly. Premier Daladier rose in the Chamber of Deputies to retort to ultra-Nationalist Louis Marin. If the Daladier Government signed the Four-Power Pact the Nationalists threatened to overthrow the Cabinet. Snapped Premier Daladier...
...which may step into the reproductive breach if king or queen should die. To the termite proletariat belong the pinheaded, speck-brained workers which do all the damage (see cut, left), the soldiers big of head & jaws. More potent than the fighter shown (cut, right) is a type with retort-shaped head from which it squirts a pungent secretion on its enemies, chiefly ants. These two castes are sterile and of both sexes, unlike ants whose females do all the work and fighting...
...holding on to the tail." British editors broadly hinted that if the U. S. could default on its gold bonds, Britain could, with equal impunity, default on its gold War debt. Internal & External. President Roosevelt was not sufficiently disturbed by these attacks on U. S. honor to make public retort. Most U. S. citizens were still thoroughly satisfied with their Government's financial virtue. The President's position was about as follows: All U. S. Government securities payable in gold are internal loans, not external obligations sold in a foreign country and payable in that country...
...Juilliard Foundation's gift. For two weeks Lawyer Sullivan had withheld his statement waiting for the Juilliard to act. Then he attacked the Foundation for shunning its Metropolitan obligations, for leaving unoccupied an "apparently ample building." for engaging too many foreign instructors. Mr. Erskine claimed in his retort that the principal of the $14,000,000 endowment was still intact, still yielding an annual income of $600,000. He said that last spring the Juilliard had given the Metropolitan $5,000, all that was asked...
Japan's Retort. In Tokyo, after the usual consultation with Prince Saionji, "Last of the Genro" or Elder Statesman of Japan, Premier Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito & Cabinet adroitly decided last week, according to their Press spokesman, "to put the whole matter up to the Assembly." They advised the Privy Council and Emperor Hirohito that if the Assembly adopted the Report then Japan must refuse to accept it and withdraw from the League. For good measure the War Office spokesman said that Japan would intensify her offensive to take Jehol about the time the Assembly is expected to vote...