Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minute Baby Austin, while the rajas and tnaharajas arrived in mammoth Daimler limousines in imitation of the King - but Sam Hoare soon showed who was master. At his first encounter with Mahatma Gandhi, then virtually a saint with tremendous kudos which had carried him straight from jail to Bucking ham Palace, Sir Samuel declared bluntly that he would give India just so much additional freedom and no more. "If this displeases you. Mr. Gandhi," said the Secretary of State for India. "I shall not take it in the least amiss if you prefer that we do not meet again...
...Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
...searching for a successor. That they had been hard pressed to fill "May" Woolley's ample chair was evident last week when, announcing a "clean break with tradition," they chose as Mount Holyoke's third president neither a graduate nor a woman but Executive Fellow Roswell Gray Ham of Yale's Jonathan Edwards College...
Upon leaving Yale, President-Elect Ham need not feel entirely as though he were joining an academic hen party. Among administrators of big U. S. women's colleges he has such companions as Smith's witty Scottish William Allan Neilson and Vassar's Henry Noble MacCracken. But Roswell Ham will be the first head man at Mount Holyoke, a jealously feminine citadel since it was founded in 1837 as a ladies' seminary by Spinster Mary Lyon...
Tall, burly, deep-voiced Roswell Gray Ham is 45, married, has two sons. Before receiving a captain's commission in the Wartime Marine Corps, he had taught at University of Washington and University of California. After the War he went to Yale's Graduate School, has been a mem ber of Yale's English Department since 1920. When he goes to his new post in September 1937, after President Woolley officiates at next year's centenary celebra tion, Mount Holyoke girls can expect a change in presidential speaking fare. President-elect Ham's specialty...