Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Truly it is distressing to see Mary Woolley up in arms at the selection of Dr. Roswell Ham as President of Mount Holyoke. "Tell It to the Marines" was her summary of his qualifications to succeed her in office. It is not clear whether she hopes he will return to his war-time profession or whether she speaks as delegate-emeritus to the Disarmament Conference. An excess of self-conscious femininity started the tempest in South Hadley, and the longer the feathers and epithets fly between the women the closer their claim of equality approaches a slur on the dominant...
...year search, but only after three women turned down the offer did it go to a man. Nonetheless Dr. Woolley stands on record as desiring a woman, any woman, in preference to a competent man. Such opposition before he takes office must be acutely embarrassing to Dr. Ham. In reality by breaking the century old tradition of its greatest fort the shows that the feminist movement has come of age. When men and women can easily replace each other in office, the latter have won their equality. Dr. Wooley's attitude sorely hurts her own cause, for not only does...
...country a great deal of harm!" The U. S. Ambassador is a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, and was much moved when the Prime Minister raised his glass with a bland expression and toasted President Roosevelt's Kentuckian in these words: "Whatever else comes from Kentucky, Kentucky ham is the best in the world...
Last week the U. S. Embassy confirmed "no change" in this British setup, and kindly Ambassador Bingham is the last gentleman from Kentucky who would think of remonstrating officially with British gentlemen. His reply to Mr. Baldwin's 'ham" toast was a speech of which the keynote was: "I think this evening is one of great importance!" Afterward several chagrined M. P.'s said they had an impression that new King George and the old Prime Minister will be "completely inaccessible to Americans who come over for the Coronation...
...Adolf Busch when he was 17, thenceforth appeared with him in chamber music recitals. He began to strike out for himself as a soloist in England. France, Switzerland. Holland, Italy, Spain. Austria. In 1933 the German Government refused to let Serkin, a Jew, play at the Brahms Centennial in Ham burg (TIME, May 1, 1933). Violinist Busch, an Aryan, withdrew too, took the young pianist to live with him in Basle. Year and a half ago Serkin married Busch's young daughter Irene...