Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Doyen of the Washington press corps, as "Fred," he drew him into the cabin, consulted with him and then sent him back out into the corridor with word that an interview would follow breakfast. Then Mr. Justice Black popped his head out in the hall to order ham & eggs; refused a pile of Pittsburgh Post-Gazettes offered by William Herman Mylander, Washington representative of the Paul Block paper, just in case Mr. Justice Black had not read the expose of his Klan activities in the paper of their origin; failed to recognize in spite of his 10 gal. hat Post...
...meeting, sponsored by the Business School Association, also featured talks by Dean Don ham and Thomas H. Saunders, professor of Accounting...
...Room Service, is that in which three starving actors leap wolfishly upon a well-laden table, snap at everything in sight, including their own fingers. Thirty years ago U. S. audiences roared with delight at a similar scene, in which two hungry Negroes, yearning for a mythical farm where ham trees and biscuit bushes grow, come upon a picnic basket; one of them seizes a banana, peels it, stutteringly devours the skin. That was the sure-fire climax of The Ham Tree, one of the most famous musical shows that ever toured...
Last week 80-year-old James McIntyre (Alexander Hambletonian of The Ham Tree) died at his home near Southampton, L. I. As he lay dying he wondered querulously why his old partner Tom Heath (Hennery Jones of their act) had failed to send his usual telegram of birthday greeting. But old Tom Heath, 84, a few miles away at Setauket, was beyond such amenities. He has been paralyzed since last year...
...Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd announced last week that he would introduce a bill to reimburse a Smithfield ham producer for losses suffered on hams which the Post Office was unable to deliver to Republic Steel Corp. officials during the steel strike...