Word: hammed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broke enough whiskey bottles (full) to arouse envy in the heart of the most rabid prohibition agent, stepped off the electric car that carried her from Boston to Cambridge and went straight to those claustral walls, where a thousand students were eating their midday meal. She had heard that ham was occasionally served with champagne sauce and that she had seen a menu which listed jelly...
...only" and "daring presentation publicity that has provided the abortion with packed houses. Yes people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wild-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
...Under Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. was seeing everybody. To Prime Minister Winston Churchill he took a fine acorn-fed Virginia ham with the fat all on it, sat and talked late in the P.M.'s bedroom. Next day he settled to long, earnest talks with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. He lunched with the Bank of England's new Governor, Lord Catto (TIME, April 17), Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Anderson, saw Imperial Chemical's Lord McGowan, Production Minister Oliver Lyttelton. He also had an audience with King George...
...Manhattan OPA moved to give the rich an even break. Inspectors cracked down on 73 eating places. Most were soda fountains charging stenographers a nickel too much for a ham sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle...
Chicken Every Sunday (adapted from Rosemary Taylor's book, by Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein; produced by Edward Gross) is a tall tale of boardinghouse life in Tucson, Ariz. a generation ago. A lot of it is less boardinghouse than monkey house, less chicken on Sunday than ham and corn during the week. Staking everything on laughs, Playwrights Epstein leap the boarderline of probability, cram the house with all kinds of weirdies and whacks, from a whiskey-soared giantess who yodels to a nymphomaniac who tears after Indians...