Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ham Poet...
...acting version is natural and charming, but last week's performance showed only a series of moods-that time-honored way of passing the buck about the dark, difficult Russian soul. Actor Lunt performed admirably as Trigorin, Actress Fontanne badly as Irina. She made the Russian woman a ham actress in a farce, displayed a rather alarming affinity for the role...
...people who take in plenty of Bt with their food are unable to utilize it because an alkaline condition of the blood or digestive tract neutralizes it. In such cases the hungry nerves snap up the vitamin, if any reaches them, like a hungry man wolfing a plate of ham and eggs. To sidestep possible alkalinity in the body, Dr. Stern administers the vitamin directly to the spine...
...young Minnesotan who graduated from Dartmouth in 1926, bummed around the world to St. John's College, Cambridge, now teaches English at St. Mark's School. Author of at least one unforgettable poem (The Groundhog), Poet Eberhart is one of the rarest human types known-a genuine ham poet...
Cooking a ham with steam has two disadvantages : 1) it takes four or five hours; 2) the ham loses up to 10% of its weight. At Chicopee Falls, Mass., Westinghouse's radio division put a ham into a short wave machine, cooked it to a "delicate flavor" in 20 minutes. Loss of weight...