Word: ham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speaker: "Such an epithet cannot be allowed in the House of Commons. The Right Honorable gentleman from West Ham must withdraw it or leave the House...
...after all this which I really dare you to read. In the meantime I shall take the stick that I am buying on the instalment plan, my hat which is twice as crumpled as Gautier would have ever dared wear his, and eat ham sandwiches at the Wurzhaus with the swagger of one who has not fooled the public for eighteen inches...
...later words class him with the framers of humorous analogies. For he observes with glee that Noah in founding the menagerie business was the first man to water the stock; while he was yet more modern in utilizing the dove for sky-sign advertising. And his sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet, having organized the "Globe Girdling Construction Company", sought the several continents because "such a big proposition could not be handled from the ark alone...
Interlocutor-The Right Honorable Philip Snowden, P.C.,* M.P., Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Macdonald Laborite Government (1924). Respondent-The Right Honorable Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, P.C.,* C.H.,† Chancellor of the Exchequer in the present Baldwin Conservative Government. Harlequin-John Joseph Jones, M.P. from West Ham, famed as "Jumping Jack Jones" (TIME, April 7, 1924). THE PLAYLET...
...western sandwich is a ham and onion omelet with bread above and below...