Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your high-school wisecrack dismissals of Dr. Williams and Miss Taggard-writers whose long service to American poetry certainly deserves more consideration than you seem willing to pay it. No one will quarrel with reasoned, documented condemnation; what is really immoral is this arbitrary fixing of labels-"poetaster," "poeticule," "ham" (in a recent "review" of unhappy memory)-and then forcing the material to correspond to them. The pity of it is that you are influential. Your treatment of Dr. Williams' book does much to explain the indifference you mention in your first sentence...
...California's Downey, sponsor of crack-pated "Ham & Eggs" ($30 every Thursday pension plan), was assigned to the committee on Banking & Currency...
...vote in 1937 with Franklin Roosevelt's aid. Instead, Senator Harrison chose last week not to run for Leader this year: he did not want the job of spokesman for the Administration. "Dear Alben" was re-elected by acclamation and Illinois' elegant, whiskery old James Hamilton ("J. Ham") Lewis was persuaded to continue as Whip instead of withdrawing, as he had threatened to do, to introduce legislation...
...Francisco's present exposition, subtitled "A Pageant of the Pacific," the board of architects was an all-Western team. Chairman was George William Kel-ham, who had also been chief architect for the 1915 show. When he died two years ago he was succeeded by Arthur Brown Jr., another Panama-Pacific architect. Outstanding characteristic of the rest of the Fair architects, as of the exposition they designed, was their collaborative harmony. Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...