Word: banter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patrons and patronesses are Dr. and Mrs. Melvin T. Copeland, Professor and Mrs. George F. Doriot, and Dean and Mrs. Edmond Wright. The ushers are William Banter, R. Canon Clements 2B; Robert C. Dunlap 2B, Thomas M. Hayden 2B, Grover L. Higdon 2B, Charles Shaeffer, and Robert E. Stevens 2B. Members of the Executive Board will assist...
With no tattoo of manifestoes did the President resume his charted course. The usual banter was lacking when he held his first official press conference. He spoke forcefully and with a new determination...
...when Fence Orations could appear in print, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., speaking for the Sophomores, finally left his banter and said, "Gentlemen, may your class always meet here as a unit, forgetting all social divisions. May there never be a distinction between rich man and poor man in this corner of the campus, but let the Fence-bond of friendship for your class be based simply upon 'Yale and '97'. . . Every man knows what the institution of these few rails has meant for the friendship of this College. Guard them from mutilation. Protect them from misuse...
...existence or should one go out into the wilds far from monetary cares amid the birds and fish and there look at one's soul. All this is quite apparent at the end of the second act, which by the way, is brilliant in spots and abounds in clever banter; there is, however, no real need of prolonging the third act with a reiteration of the case before staging the long anticipated ending. A shorter scene would perhaps have been more appropriate...
Submarine & Bicycle. What newsmen wanted to know was: Would Governor Roosevelt, if nominated, fly to Chicago to address the delegates? He concealed his plans with gay banter: "I may go out by submarine to escape being followed by you men. . . . I have thought of another method. I could ride a bicycle, a five-seater. Papa could sit in front and steer and my four sons could sit behind." Newshawks grinned politely...