Word: retorting
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...words were to be taken at their face value last week, a lot of them had dirty faces. The lie was freely passed; the retort discourteous was the rule. Slanderous accusations splattered like eggs. If any citizen could be found last week who believed half of what he heard, he must have been sad indeed. Whichever candidate was elected-if he were to believe his ears-the country was lost...
...Right. And a hearty reproof to the editor who failed to point it out specifically in TIME'S footnote, which said that "Saxe-Coburg-tmd-Gotha was the house of the British Royal Family which gazetted itself the House of Windsor only in 1917." (As a retort to that gazetting, Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court attended a command performance of Shakespeare's comedy, The Merry Wives of Saxe-Coburg-und-Gotha...
...this was solemn embroidery around grimly settled fact. Germany wages war not by The Hague rules but by Hitler's rules: no holds barred. And Britons, not being fools, will retort in kind...
...steelmaking capacity rose 30%, while capacity for making pig iron (the only alternative to scrap) fell 2%. They wanted to know why Defense Advisory Commission's Ed Stettinius hadn't put scrap on his list of embargoed strategic materials issued four weeks ago. Scrap brokers could retort that there is no scrap shortage as yet. But if Defense orders put steel's autumn production rate as high as patriots hope, steel mills will have to buy in a sellers' market whose origin can be blamed in good part on Japan...
...Governor against bouncing, bumptious ex-Governor Harold Hoffman, one of the minor phenomena of Jersey politics. Reviled, threatened with impeachment, pronounced politically dead after his meddling with the Hauptmann case, bullocky Mr. Hoffman is friskier than ever. He counters the charge that he is a Hague Republican with the retort: "I like Hague as much as Haig & Haig. I take both of them when I want them but neither is my master." Most discouraging of all to Pastor Clee and the Clean Government League is that the cry of "Hagueism" has been raised so often that Jersey voters are getting...