Word: retractment
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...something to which we object strenuously. Namely, the application of the word "pornographic" to the music of Igor Stravinsky. That word suggests something cheap, showy and vulgar. Brutal he may be-savage and colossally déchirant in his treatment of Sacré du Printemps, but never pornographic! Please retract-you do him a grave injustice. JOSEPH STAPLES JOHN H. HARNEY...
...must, however, take issue with the indictments contained in his communication. It brief, the Bulletin cannot yet retract anything it said in the editorial referred to, although proof to the contrary will lead to a frank apology. But we must have proof of some of the rather sensational statements Mr. Kreger makes. This spectre of graduate interference with Harvard athletics should either be put where the spotlight will shine on it or be pushed into the wings and kept there. . . . These are serious charges which Mr. Kreger makes and he should substantiate them. Perhaps he will be willing to give...
...maxims about working and waiting, study and industry, are to be thrown aside in favor of push, impudence, tuft-hunting, insolence and greed. And when challenged later about the soundness of this advice, Professor Rogers declared that he meant every bit of it and had not a word to retract. That would seem to make his circle of sarcasm completely rounded...
...Parliament! Nor any greater harm!" Sir Austen seemed actually beside himself with grief and shame. "Bilkers!" his French friends had been called "Bilkers! !" As other Conservatives followed the Foreign Secretary, all flaying Mr. Snowden and all greatly exaggerating his slip, he became positively livid with rage. "I retract not a word! I refuse to apologize!" he shrilled, emphasizing his exclamations with cane thumps. "I am sufficient of an Englishman not to be content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves. You are all just electioneering, just...
...Fred Stone!" For never have we seen such a resemblance. This fellow looks exactly like Fred, and has a voice which would deceive Mrs Stone. If his dancing were slightly better, we would be convinced beyond doubt and Charles Dillingham and Will Rogers couldn't make us retract. But as things are, it is just an optical illusion; one of the better, none the less...