Word: retorting
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...Professor Kittredge legends recounted in your Aug. 4 issue are orthodox and generally credited. But I am sure that the great teacher would resent having some of them stand without modification in your widely read columns. ... I once heard him deny publicly at Dartmouth the retort, "Who would examine me?" when asked why he had not taken the Ph.D. degree. "That would have been nonsense!" he exclaimed, and added humorously, "I don't think I could have passed an examination for that degree." About the Oxfordian who told him that the only man who could answer an obscure question...
...Orient, at Chungking receptions the hardhitting ex-cabby and his blunt, breezy manner had Occidental diplomats squirming in suspense. Once, when a secretary from the U.S. Embassy inquired fretfully why he had not called on Ambassador Clarence Gauss, only the Chinese guests seemed to enjoy his typical retort: "Why should I?" snapped Arnstein. "I don't know...
...censorship is the one job I like very much." When he admitted that he found it necessary to ask Sally Rand "to put a little more on" recently, his audience showed signs of distinct disapproval. "You're hissing me only because I got there first,' was the Commissioner's retort...
...Army's headache list is a shortage of good corporals, sergeants and second lieutenants, without which Army's whopping training program may well founder. To get noncoms and shavetails in quantity, Army bosses may well have to junk some tenets of promotion by seniority. Stock Army retort to suggestions of promotion for merit has long been that such a system would encourage political toadying; but low-bracket officers must be found, even if dull-witted veterans are passed over to commission brainy tenderfeet. To ferret out officer material, all rookies are being interviewed in Big-Businesslike detail...
...delegates who delivered the petition were the same group who sponsored the between-the-halves stunt at the Yale Bowl, in which a caricature figure of the President conductng a military drill all by himself had his gun snatched away from him by "John Harvard 1941," and a chemical retort substituted in its stead...