Word: retorting
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...During the War, when the Kaiser was handing out Iron Crosses, German-blooded but 100% American Mr. Schwab made flamboyant retort by handing out to Bethlehem executives who made a yearly $1,000,000 or better under the bonus system, rich diamond crosses about 1½ in. high...
...power from the public plant. In the House it was contended that the manufacture of fertilizer at full capacity would utilize all the public power from the plant. Hence, with no surplus to sell, the U. S. would not be in the power business. From the Senate came the retort that the fertilizer scheme would undoubtedly become very minor if not fail altogether; hence power production and sale by the Government would become the major industry at Muscle Shoals...
...back through Hearst files to 1923, dug out a statement by Mr. Lloyd George anent the Anglo-U. S. debt settlement, printed part of it in an effort to show that the Welshman's debt stand eight years ago is inconsistent with his stand today. In his retort (a letter-to-the-Tzwes reprinted and featured by Hearstpapers last week) Mr. Lloyd George accused the Times of "garbling"' his eight-year-old words. Said he: "After I called your attention to these perversions of the truth, instead of apologizing like gentlemen for your oversight, you indulged in spite...
President Hoover quickly summoned Attorney General Mitchell and together they composed a retort to the Senate and an explanation to the Public. The militant wording of these documents, it was noticed, was so much above the President's average literary style that Attorney General Mitchell was suspected of having contributed much...
Incidentally, the self-appointed critics are now free to wend their way out of the Augean stables. Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth and Radcliffe are cleansed from any taint of originality. There is no retort--except, possibly, the rather ineffectual expedient of mentioning the Eleventh Commandment, whose essence is concerned mostly with minding one's business...