Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House last week voted to ham-handed Martin Dies of Texas, Rightist drum major of the Leftist parade, his $100,000 expense money for further probing into UnAmerican Activities. Mr. Dies promptly went shopping for investigators, ex-G-Men preferred. But Speaker Bankhead struck one last minute blow for the Leftists. To a vacancy on the Dies Committee he appointed California's earnest young Representative Jerry Voorhis, good friend of Red Rover Amlie and, since the departure of Texas' Maury Maverick,* leader of the Young Turks in the House. Son of a millionaire, Jerry Voorhis turned down...
...Winkle the Breadwinner got on a bus one day last month, and for eight days readers of the Chicago Tribune and 140 other newspapers followed Cartoonist Martin Michael Branner's heroine through a series of depressing experiences. She was annoyed by a traveling salesman, bored by a Shakespearean ham, sprawled over by a yokel couple. Many a reader guessed that Cartoonist Branner had gone somewhere on a bus and hadn't liked it much...
Scott Lucas, freshman Democrat from Illinois, was another keen disappointment to Leader Barkley and his Whip, old J. Ham Lewis of Illinois. So were North Carolina's Bob Reynolds and Minnesota's Shipstead. The latter said he voted in protest to a placard in WPA headquarters urging WPAsters to telegraph to Senators. "I'm tired of pressure," snorted Shipstead...
Asked about My Dear Children, the play he will open in next month, four-times married John Barrymore replied: "Oh, it's a play about a ham who couldn't get along with his wives...
...Congressmen flocked in. He hastily moved the meeting to a larger room, and then discovered what was happening: Republicans in Congress (193 this year compared to 106 last year) had decided to make it a social occasion. Under the leadership of New York's heavy-humored Representative "Ham" Fish and Missouri's bucolic Representative Dewey Short, they voted ten-to-one that Ham Fish, not Alben Barkley, should head the delegation and pick "a dozen other lucky Congressmen to share the junket...