Word: ham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...West" starring Lupe Velez is a screen version of the play of the same name, which enjoyed a long and successful run. In spite of this the improbability of the plot is nearly too much of a handicap for the cast, who rescue the play from the depths of ham melodrama by skillful and intelligent acting. White slavery on the Chinese and San Francisco water fronts with the usual handsome young hero to rescue his fair maiden from the clutches of would be evil doers are the ingredients of the plot. This time it is further complicated by the difficulties...
...Class team played an excellent game and, in spite of a hard attack by the Seconds, managed to hold and put up a good defense. The first period was evenly played, but in the second, the Class team scored when H. A. Ham '33 went over for a touchdown. Instead of drop-kicking for the extra point, P. A. Ketchum '31 passed to Ham, who crossed the goal line...
HARVARD SECONDS CLASS TEAM Cole, r.e. l.e., Russell Johnson, r.t. l.t., Whitney Burrage, r.g. l.g., Williams R. M. Ayer, c. c., Hale Thorndike, l.g. r.g., Gaul Kidder, l.t. r.t., Lutkemeyer Bartol, l.e. r.e., Taylor Pell, q.b. q.b., Nyhoff Scott, r.h.b. l.h.b., Ham Lupien, l.h.b. r.h.b., Ketchum Fincke, f.b. f.b., Sereno...
...campaign in Illinois to be the first woman elected to the U. S. Senate, Republican Nominee Ruth Hanna McCormick last week found herself confronted by three adversaries instead of one. They were: 1) James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis, Democratic Senatorial nominee; 2) Mrs. Lottie Holman O'Neill, independent dry candidate; 3) the Senate Committee on Campaign Expenditures chairmanned by North Dakota's 37-year-old Senator Gerald Prentice Nye. Adversary No. 3 furnished the week's melodramatics...
Four U. S. Congressmen were observed last week peering into two children's camps on the Hudson River. They were four-fifths of the special House committee led by New York's big young Hamilton ("Ham") Fish Jr., authorized to discover evidence of revolutionary activities by the Russian Soviet in the U. S. Witnesses at their Manhattan hearings had told them they might see Red flags, hear juvenile profanity at the Communist-organized children's summer camps (TIME, July 28). Many a young Red nose was thumbed at them, many a hiss and boo was heard, but there were...