Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last spring Claire Ham '50 rounded up ten Annex students who considered target practice a good way to spend their extracurricular hours. Harvard's Ride Club granted the girls permission to use the shooting range in the Indoor Athletic Building one night a week, and even supplied them with an instructor, Henry Peltz...
Tallulah Bankhead, who regards Tom Dewey as "a phony ham actor," but thinks Harry Truman "a wonderful little man," did some hamming of her own at a Manhattan rally, in the famed, florid Bankhead manner...
Recent balloting has boosted Ellon Bower '50 to the president's chair of the Annex Orchestra. Alicia Steeves '51 will take over the dual post of vice-president and treasurer, and Claire Ham '50 was elected secretary...
...Wyman plays the mute with sweetness and considerable skill. Mr. Ayres is modest and sympathetic. Mr. Bickford and Miss Moorehead do solid jobs of character acting. Stephen (formerly Horace) McNally is a vigorous personality and also a very good actor. In some stretches the picture is just well-sliced ham, but in others it is so good that it hardly seems possible the same crew made...
...stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition, a terrible ham...