Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Townsend (son) reported that the Townsend National Weekly ($2 per annum) finished the year with $32,103 surplus. The Townsend Foundation, a contingency fund raised by contributions and birthday balls, had a $28,315 surplus. "Time and tide are fighting with us!" shouted California's Senator Sheridan ("Ham & Eggs") Downey at the convention. But Dr. Townsend, who is 72, said that if neither the Republicans nor Democrats take over his cause nationally before long, he will form a third party. "We're getting tired of waiting," he shrilled...
Incidentally, Investigator Richardson eventually finds he has to contend with a radio ray that disables airplane ignition systems in flight. More plausible than most cineminventions, such a ray was reported worked three years ago by Marconi at distances up to 25 feet. Another such, rigged up by a radio ham in Wisconsin, was last year reported gobbled up by the U. S. War Department...
...cinemarquees, though the picture fails to sparkle on the screen. A new once-over of an old Paramount property about a nightclubstress, a prizefighter and a waif, it features slumbery-eyed Helen Twelvetrees and Western Star Buck Jones without his horse, Silver. Buck without Silver is all ham and no eggs...
...much a part of the Broadway scene as a ham actor out of work, the flashy International Casino, melting pot of buyers, cooks up a long, elaborate girls-&-gagsters vaudeville. With never a lozenge to cool his throat, Wisecracker Milton Berle (Earl Carroll Vanities) serves as tireless, tedious Master of Ceremonies for such acts as Georgie Tapps's neat dancing, Harry Richman's loud singing, and Caribbean Rapture, a writhing dance to voodoo drums that is the best and warmest of Manhattan's tropical chorus spectacles...
...ham-fisted Congressman Martin Dies had been able to call Orson Welles's Martians before his Committee to Investigate Un-American Activities he could not have extracted a more lurid story than he got last week. Witnesses testified in all seriousness to their belief...