Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shell and tell his men this and that. Even now Whiteside's eyes crinkle with a reminiscent smile as he thinks of the manner in which the little fellow bossed those burly giants. Bissell teamed with Stroke Gerry Cassedy for three years, and the two went together like ham goes with eggs. Only once during their four years did Bissell's strategy actually go sour, and that one occasion only served to demonstrate further Bissell's worth to his crew...
...course Dr. Wirt may have thought it up by himself, but there is a fairly familiar odor of Ham and Fish about it all. The doctor is the head of public school system in Gary, Indiana, one of the larger fiefs in the domain of the United States Steel Corporation, named in honor of the late lord of that house. Judge Gary's ghost, outraged at what the Code Age has done to his life work, must be haunting the purlieus of Gary nightly and scaring the good doctor to death...
MOJAVE - Edwin Corle - Liveright ($2). Western short stories, in which the quality of the sandwich varies but is somewhat ham in flavor...
...elsewhere. The only real benefit which would derive from it would be to make it possible to use the electric power potentialities as a lever for forcing the utility companies to lower their rates; but once again this could be better accomplished by some other methods. The objections of Ham Lewis on strategic grounds, are, of course, ridiculous; but they are neither so ridiculous nor so dangerous as the arguments of the proponents of this economic fallacy...
...very end Sara will not admit to anyone but herself that her father was not a great man, a worthy statesman, a good husband, a beloved father. Before that she has ample proof that all is not well in her family. Her sister Charlotte runs off with a ham actor. Rumors of her father's impending ruin drive Sara to a shocking interview with his mistress. Again & again the faithful Paul offers himself as a second-best husband, but Sara will not have him even after he is a widower. In spite of his unexplained departure and long silence...