Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis' gluttony was gargantuan: Author Padover calls it "glandular." A "normal" meal for him would consist of four cutlets, a fat chicken, six eggs, a slice of ham. Sometimes he gorged himself insensible, would then mutter remorseful words of "slop-pail grossness." At decisive moments he was often too gorged...
Martin ran against Ham Fish in the 26th Congressional district of New York on the Democratic and Labor ticket, losing in the face of the Dewey landslide, but finishing well ahead of his ticket. A representative of the younger element in politics. Martin graduated from the University of California in 1934, where he was president of the college comic magazine. He is a brother-in-law of John S. Stillman, president...
...critics, whether they liked the play or not, ostentatiously confessed ignorance of what it meant. A long, amorphous one-acter, it tells of an unsuccessful poet and his little son who live, not always even from hand-to-mouth, in a California town. Upon them stumbles an aged Shakespearean ham actor (Art Smith), a runaway from the Old Folks' Home, whose playing on a trumpet delights his hosts andthe townsfolk. The old actor finally dies spouting King Lear, and the poet and his son are evicted from their little house, take bravely to the road...
...With two ham sandwiches and a jug of coffee, he took off from Burbank, Calif. in one of his two-seaters, climbed his heavily loaded craft to 12,000 ft. and headed east. Averaging 30 miles to the gallon, he kept his Monocoupe on top of an overcast most of the way, kept himself on the course by listening to range stations on a small radio receiver. When he landed at Roosevelt Field, N. Y. next day, tired and chilled, he had set a new transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost...
Died. James Hamilton Lewis, 72, Democratic whip and longtime Senator from Illinois; of coronary thrombosis; in Washington, D. C. A starveling Seattle lawyer at 22, a courtly Congressman-at-large at 32, long noted in the Senate for his pink whiskers and noble verbosity, Jim Ham Lewis observed shortly before his death that nowadays age 60 was a man's political prime...