Word: banter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summaries. Emerson (H) defeated Coburn (T), 3-2; Ladd (T) defeated Morris (H) 3-1; Ashley (H) defeated Williams (T), 3-1; Tenney (T) defeated Richardson (H), 3-2; Harding (H) defeated Banter...
...with the times. He was no longer a patient listener. Many a time in budget conferences he cut short advisers with a brusque yes or no and hurried to the next item. Even with colleagues of Cabinet rank he had lost the habit of turning aside importunities with easy banter...
Golden Earrings (Paramount) must have been intended as quite a novelty. Audiences were to thrill to the spectacle of a Dietrich Without Glamor: her famous legs lost in gypsy petticoats, her looks in gypsy greasepaint, her trick accent reduced to gypsy gutturals barely distinguishable from stock-company wigwam banter...
Behind such conversation as this slice of banter recorded in a Pierre, South Dakota, pharmacy lies the reason that Harvard is today the most maligned and misconstrued institution of higher learning in the nation...
...journalist liked a nip now & then, said: "John, your whiskey is going to cost you a bit more from now on. You'll have to pay a penny more for your beer, too." Item by item the salient points of the budget came out in Dalton's banter...