Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last minute attempt he will throw his support to Mayor Marvin of Syracuse. But beaten he will resign the chairmanship and will probably be succeeded by Eaton. Moses undoubtedly will be nominated for Governor. The senatorship is in doubt with John Lord O'Brian coming into prominence as Ham Fish fades out, or there is a slight chance that the convention might indorse Breckinridge with his Constitutional Party. Then the fight will be on with small chance of victory. With the party in a bad mess anyway, Mr. Moses happens to be a Jew but not an orthodox...
...submitted to injections of the Brodie vaccine. Reporters flocked to the laboratories. Laughed old Dr. Park: "I had a good night's sleep and didn't even think about the injection. I got up this morning at 7:30 o'clock. Breakfast consisted of fruit, ham and eggs and coffee. I got to the office at 9:30 a. m. and began to work. I feel fine. Danger? Pooh, pooh! We won't know for a week or ten days what the reactions...
...stage name when she was 12, by misspelling Betty. When she arrived in Hollywood she was called a "school girl Constance Bennett." She learns a part by glancing through it once or twice, wears glasses when she reads, usually goes to sleep at parties. Her husband is Harmon O. ("Ham") Nelson Jr., bandleader at Hollywood's Colony Club. They went to school together, met again at the 1932 Olympic Games. Davis joke: "Ham is a good egg." Born in a thunderstorm, Bette Davis now considers rainstorms lucky. She is 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs 106 Ib. Her figure...
...Church, Oberlin and Harvard-educated with a college-graduate daughter now studying abroad. Church owns white-folks' houses as well as Beale Street property, and outside his offices at No. 392 Beale St. the Negroes staged their own carnival, "The Opening of the Gates of Ham." In and out of such resorts as the "Swreet Mamma," "Pee-Wee's Place" and the "Echo Pie Emporium" strutted blackamoors with "High Agnes" haircuts, trailed by admiring country cousins. Dicing, dancing and cutting went on hour after hour until the sun once more lit up the tall towers and gleamed...
...might be well to point out also that Professor W. T. Ham, of this university, in his article, "Labor under the German Republic," in the February 1934 issue of the "Quarterly Journal of Economics," while not believing that the German capitalists were farsighted enough to have supported the Hitler movement in its early days, says (page 226) that "Once it had become a party of national significance, the great industrialists undoubtedly proceeded to try to turn it to their purpose in opposing the growing power of the working class." Their effort has been crowned with success in the course...