Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waldorf and his man Oscar. Neatly they spiked their problem with a startling innovation ? a U. S. menu U. S. cooked. Mr. Boomer led off with Cape Cods baked in the shell, New Orleans gumbo and Maryland terrapin. His bird was Chesapeake mallard. Frozen applejack preceded Virginia ham and autumn salad which were topped off with soufflé Lugol and coffee...
...current struggle between the officers of justice and the organized forces of crime, the local police departments, ham-strung by the venality of city bosses and the inferior talents of their men, are unable to function with the essential efficiency and coordination. Offering a meagre salary and little hope of advancement without political influence, the police forces are compelled to recruit from the lower strata of society...
...years Herb Williams has made vaudeville audiences scream with delight by his quavering plea of "Spotlight!" from a dark stage. Sometimes billed as "The Bulgarian Military Pianist," he used to rummage for a ham sandwich under his piano lid, draw himself a glass of beer from a spigot beneath the keyboard. His comedy was generally of the tear-the-place-to-pieces variety...
...make them even better. He appends 30 pages of recipes which cannot be read aloud without frequent swallows. A master chef in the great French tradition, Henri thinks no culinary detail too homely to be treated artistically. Typical is his precept to neophyte waiters: "Carve a ham as if you were shaving the face of a friend." Tall, white-haired (he is 54), of stately port and bonhomous mien, Henri admits he is pretty well done, but he is in no hurry to be taken from his browning oven...
...Defense Rests" is a fairly good story about another of those criminal lawyers who has never lost a case but who succumbs to the attack of any accessible blonde. Best ham acting of the year...