Word: banteringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town. Though Buttrio Square is the center-of-life in an Italian community, it looks like the market place of a dozen Ruritanian capitals. Up goes the curtain, and out pop youths and maidens committing the usual merry-month-of-Mayhem. Thereafter, there is much strenuous dancing, deplorable banter, and songs with such titles as Let's Make It Forever and You're Mine, All Mine...
Taverne and Rees-Mogg danced gay conversational circles around their game opponents, pausing occasionally from banter to make a shrewd point...
...beginning of 1945: "To do the work of two men instead of three." By then, that 13-year labor of self-love had grown to seven volumes (final total: nine). Into it, Agate had poured his "insane desire" for immortality, and a volley of educated banter ranging from Bernhardt to boogie-woogie, censorship to Sartre...
...dripped down the shutters of the Little White House. Harry Truman awoke, turned over, peered disgustedly out the window and went back to sleep for an extra half hour. It had been like that for days, and the President was getting a little bored with the endless rainy-day banter, and with life on the cold and clammy beach...
...necessary to go into the complexities of Phelps' plot. "One need only explain that the setting is a "life-sized portrait of Melville's study" and that the people in the painting come to life and philosophize and indulge in banter with people of our own day who are looking at the painting. The philosophy got beyond me at times but it has to do with Time (represented by a grandfather clock) and white whales and is quite satisfactory; the banter, which I presume is meant to provide another frame of reference for the philosophy (besides the picture frame, which...