Word: bantering
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...President addressed the Association of National Advertisers, meeting in Washington (see p. 48). Some listeners thought they detected a trace of banter in his voice as he said: "Advertising . . . certainly is the vocal organ by which industry sings its songs of beguilement. . . . You have stirred the lethargy of the old law of supply and demand. . . . You also contribute to hurry up the general use of every discovery in science and every invention in industry. . . . Your latest contribution to constructive joy is to make possible the hourly spread of music, entertainment and political assertion to the radio sets...
Your article on our esteemed Mr. Brewster Morgan was above reproach and only its form has been the object of banter and thrust in repartee and more ordinary discussion...
...Warren vacancy. Since 1917 he has been Wyoming's Republican National Committeeman. Like his predecessor a wealthy sheep rancher, Senator Sullivan grew up with the West, prospered with its oil. He lives at Casper in the State's finest mansion. Plain, bighearted, full of fight or banter, Irishman Sullivan was undisturbed by reports that the Senate might question his right to membership because of a quirk juggled into the Wyoming law by a Republican legislature to prevent one-time (1925-27) Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross from appointing a Democrat in case Senator Warren died...
...Burke bandies words between his characters, these words having to do with the marital state and its attendant pitfalls. Somehow, the only relevant thing we can think of to sum the matter up is that "Young Love" was a much better piece. It was far less forced in its banter, had considerably more of a point, and had two good acts out of three instead of a mere...
Monica, well bred, was exceedingly cordial to Hester; but Hester was rude with harum-scarum honesty. She swept Clive off to her world of modernistic furniture, and noisy banter, while Monica quietly retired from London to the country. Then Hester, disturbed by the misery she felt in Clive, in Monica, could not leave well enough alone; followed her mother-in-law, and by malicious coincidence found an old lover among Monica's new friends. Monica, quick to recognize the situation, flared into unaccustomed wrath, disrupting the close understanding between Clive and his wife. Only by the deftest handling...