Word: bantering
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...Questions? G.O.P. Congressmen who attempted airy political banter with suave Sidney Hillman, a veteran of 35 years of left-wing dialectics, found him one too many for them. Representative Clarence J. Brown, of Blanchester, Ohio (pop. 1,785), tried to poke fun at the P.A.C. claims to nonpartisanship. Said he: was it not true that Hillman's own New York local had supported Tom Dewey for district attorney...
...Duke of Windsor, who has been the quiet banter of some roaring rumors. was reported to be resigning as Governor of the Bahamas and seeking U.S. citizenship. London and Washington semi-omcials expressed grave doubts. Said he: "Fantastic...
Last week banter like this was making language teaching great fun for teacher and pupils alike. The Spanish lessons were being given by radio and their popularity was zooming. Some 4,500 listeners had written to Manhattan station WQXR for Spanish-English word lists accompanying the thrice weekly broadcasts* of Let's Learn Spanish...
...stage is no guarantee of a payoff before the microphone. For Russian War Relief (WOR-Mutual) and The Cavalcade of America (NBC) respectively the lusty pair played a Russian metalworker & wife, a Bethlehem innkeeper & wife. These roles were not designed to exploit the Lunts' facility with bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death of Russia's hero Nikolai Gastello, who dived into a German gasoline stock pile. The Lunts could not make Gastello's parents even as convincing as the script made...
With these not particularly original words, Franklin Roosevelt urged all U.S. voters to go to the polls this week in the first national election of World War II. Then he packed his bags and was off for Hyde Park to add example to precept. After some playful banter at his press conference, he allowed that his vote would not be cast for Ham Fish...