Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...farm life entitled Thanksgiving. In an old-fashioned kitchen with modern linoleum on the floor, a pair of twins are squalling for their dinner in a highchair, a cook is basting the turkey, a scrawny aunt hurries in with a basket of vegetables, a naughty child tosses scraps of ham fat to a kitten...
Stellar performance of the week was put on by the flashy tackle of Harvard's 1910 team, snaggle-toothed Representative Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York. Congressman from Franklin Roosevelt's own Dutchess County, Ham Fish has long yearned to oust his neighbor from the White House. Returning from a nationwide, 50-speech speaking tour, last week he "informally" announced to the Hearst Press that he was an aspirant for the GOPresidential nomination, a scoop which made news in Washington only to hermits. Aglow with political imagination, he also released a non-partisan slate from which, if nominated...
...There's probably some enemy after him," the King said, taking another bite of his ham sandwich. "That wood's full of them...
...supplement a Press conference, the President gave his annual Hyde Park picnic to correspondents. There was bobbing for apples, a game called "musical bumps," other Roosevelt family games without names, community singing. The feast included roast ham, salad, pie, coffee. On a little charcoal grill placed before him, the President prepared the picnic frankfurters...
Portly, sales-minded Richard Reynolds, nephew of Winston-Salem's late Tobacco-man Richard Joshua Reynolds, arrived at the building business by the devious route of tin foil for tobacco and the Eskimo Pie, wrappings and labels for ham, candy boxes, ginger ale bottles, other fast-selling packaged products. Few years ago he made the discovery that the foil which wraps an Eskimo Pie can also be used to insulate a house. It was really no discovery at all because the Germans had long used shiny foil for insulation because of its high reflective power. Foilman Reynolds...