Word: banteringly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...joke or two "to liven things up" and, to be even more amusing, uses the studio props-"crickets"' and other noise-making contraptions - to represent creaking joints and splitting pajama legs. The command is given, a piano strikes up, the conversational gentleman barks out the count, mixing in banter and joviality...
...rush and roar of Wolverines and 20th Century Limiteds, is a trifle blase about locomotives-particularly musical ones. Tlie audience reacted to Mr. Honegger's composition with chuckles rather than cheers. One Hackett, reviewer for The Evening Post, was particularly amused. He commented in a mood of tolerant banter. Among other things, he remarked of Mr. Honegger: ". . . he might as well amuse himself with this toy as any other...
...however, we cannot, unlike Alice, recall any adventures--no, we must find the Carpenter and shed another tear. . . . Swallowing hard, we escape from the prologue to the editorial page. What, O Lampy, Ibis, Blot! What has become of the magic pen? Where is the gentle flow of easy banter and the singular style that once outran alike sophomoric itchings and threadiness of subject? Such a bare veneer of it is the first editorial; and the rest, indeed, somewhat less than three paragraphs of silence. The style of Lampy has always been traditional. It must always be so; it must...
From an office in Washington to a hotel suite at Atlantic City, Harry M. Daugherty went. He faced the future jauntily, faced reporters with banter. Behind him he left his resignation as Attorney General and a Senate investigation whose boiling died into simmering as he drew farther away...
Alexander Woollcott: "Banter which means business...