Word: retorting
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...Less Grave." In the Vatican, Pope Pius pondered the Fascist retort. He was disturbed by the extent of the controversy which has raged ever since Lavoro Fascista charged editorially that the Vatican's 15,000 Catholic Action clubs were meddling in politics and the Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, made it a political war (TIME, June 8 et seq.). The Pope was more disturbed by the manner in which his encyclical had been interpreted as a challenge. After he had pored over Mussolini's retort, he let it be announced that he felt relieved. The Vatican spokesman said...
...This was President Hoover's retort to William Randolph Hearst's $5,000,000,000 public works bond issue...
...created for him among his liberty-loving fellow citizens. Nor was he unaware that Mr. Fox's Republican City Affairs Committee might be confused in the public mind with the non-partisan City Affairs Committee of Rabbi Wise and Preacher Holmes. On the same day that his vituperative retort to the Wise-Holmes complaint reached the Governor, the sensitive Mayor flayed his Republican adversaries...
...course, the young lady who contributes to the Daily, and who is not loath to state just what her reactions are, may next time see fit to make the obvious retort to bachelorhood. But she must be warned that the last word is also obvious: 'Tis better to have loved and lost...
...city behind him, however, Mayor Walker brightened. At Chicago he was asked about the proposed investigation into his office. "My only answer to that," said he, "is the smile on my face." By the time he reached Kansas City, he had evolved a neat retort to any suggestion that he was fleeing New York. Said he: "They can find me in the desert if they want to investigate me. . . . It's funny, isn't it, that the first investigation of me should come when I'm out of town. I wonder why they didn't investigate me while...