Word: ham
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...relief, the other day, to sit down with Mr. Leacock and some of his cronies in Montreal. A relief, because one no longer heard talk of Sherwood Anderson or of T. S. Eliot, of this modern literary quarrel, or of that new play; but Colonel George H. Ham, another Canadian humorist, told of good old colonization days in Winnipeg and points west. Literary talk was of Mark Twain, Dickens, Meredith...
...Colonel Ham, a white-haired enthusiast, warmed to reminiscences of Mark Twain, broken in his latter days, but still blessed with a sense of humor, and of Dickens' son, Charles, for a time in the Canadian Northwest mounted police. " I never mentioned his father to him," Colonel Ham told us, "and he was so surprised and pleased that he actually liked me." At this point Stephen Leacock broke in, violently. "I'd rather have met a relative of Dickens' than any crowned head in Europe," he insisted. Dickens, it seems, is his literary god. Shakespeare? Oh, yes? Well and good?...
...Jersey, and one in the last few days from the West Indies sailing for Rhode Island. Only the boldest, hairy-chested sailors may apply to man these ships. On the smaller fry, motor-boats that steal out at the whisper of a radio, there is a place for hard, ham-fisted nondescripts who can plant a heavy blow and shoot a sawed-off shotgun. Gunmen out of work will find employment here, for close encounters are frequent. It is a glamorous life, full of the very smoke and reek which fired a Captain Singleton or the famous Kidd himself...
...Reverend Paul Revere Frothing ham '86, minister of the Arlington Street Church of Boston, will conduct the Services in Appleton Chapel this morning at 8.45 o'clock...
...meeting of the elected members of the University Glee Club last night. Bernard Sheridan Cogan '23 of Stone ham was unanimously elected president and Charles Kiddell Lawrence '23 of Brooklyn, New York was chosen secretary...