Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...show, it was true only of the Class of 1911, which many ungraciously suggested was a dud. Harvard's Class of 1910, for instance, fathered a celebrated motley including Columnists Walter Lippmann and Heywood Broun, Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, Communist John Reed, New York's Representative Hamilton ("Ham") Fish...
...this mix-up got under way, the shadowy dwellers of the underworld began to appear. Misshapen, grotesque, these subterranean beings range from a philosophic ink salesman to thieves, ham actors, pool sharks, narcotic addicts, bartenders, shyster lawyers, all alike in their casual disloyalty, bitter humor, and command of tough talk. Pete faces a villainous environment with all the breezy self-confidence of the hero of a James Cagney melodrama, eventually licks it. But readers are likely to find Author Mclntyre's picture of the Philadelphia underworld too one-sided to be credible, and Pete's final triumph...
...Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered a "Fascist" and shot. Said Miss Miller: "Everyone, ham actors and $500-a-week stars, were paid exactly $1 each per day, plus a meal ticket. We could eat on our tickets at the Ritz Hotel. Barcelona is one of the gayest spots today, because the Reds have rounded up so much talent." Stalemate- Elsewhere in Spain last week...
...Allison Dysart and several members of the New Brunswick Cabinet he went picnicking on a beach a mile from his home. There were only some 40 guests on the picnic, and Mrs. Roosevelt and the steward of the Presidential yacht Potomac succeeded in filling them adequately with roast beef, ham, salad and cake. On the sand, with a comfortable rock at his back, the President spent most of his time conversing with the New Brunswickian Premier and eating frankfurters, than which he likes only scrambled eggs better...
Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.) Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper .......... M.A. President-elect Roswell Gray Ham of Mount Holyoke College ........... LL.D...