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Word: hamming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Memphis to Birmingham, from the sticks to the Palace Theatre in New York, the Ultima Thule of a trouper in vaudeville. "Stage Mother" portrays the life of ham actors with great ambitions. Kitty Lorraine loses her husband when he drops to the stage from a trapeze; a baby is born; down to Boston to get help from Fred's family. She enters a magnificent mansion, which might be situated on Beacon Street, and meets her mother-in-law, father-in-law, and sister-in-law; the last mentioned would thrill psychologists who are looking for cases of spinsters with...

Author: By G. R. C., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/30/1933 | See Source »

...away from Columbia University's football and baseball teams in 1923, farmed him out a year to Hartford. In the spring of 1925, Yankee Everett Scott was just finishing his world's record of 1,307 consecutive games played in major league baseball, while the slow-witted, ham-fisted young recruit sat on the Yankee bench. On June 1, 26 days after Scott had finished his run, Manager Miller Huggins sent the recruit into a game to pinch-hit against Washington. He failed. Next day, for no good reason, Huggins put the big boy at first base. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: 1,308 Straight | 8/28/1933 | See Source »

...reimburse them for the bounties they paid out to hog raisers. The scheme would cost the Government up to $65,000,000. That sum would be derived from applying a regular processing tax to ali pork products which packers could pass on to consumers of ham, bacon, sausage, chops, lard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: Pigs to Market | 8/21/1933 | See Source »

...version of the eternal triangle. The variations on the theme are original in the highest degree, in fact there is at one point some uncertainty as to whether Miss Tobin or Mr. Young is taking the female corner of the situation. The latter's excessive skill at basting a ham and doing the housework while his wife works at the office, casts a shadow over his little menage which threatens to darken it forever. However, by devious remedies, his cuckolding is averted and his manliness reaffirmed in the end. Genevieve Tobin, as the lovely woman who stooped to what...

Author: By K. D. C., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 6/14/1933 | See Source »

...Sever 29 Comp. Literature 19 Harvard 6 Economics A Dr. Anderson, Sec. H, 1 Memorial Hall Dr. Brown, Sec. O Memorial Hall Dr. Crane, Sec. A Q Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. R Memorial Hall Mr. Eaton, Sec. N Memorial Hall Professor Frickey, Sec. J, M Memorial Hall Professor Ham, Sec. G Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. C Memorial Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. B Memorial Hall Dr. Phinney, Sec. P Memorial Hall Mr. Ross, Sec. D, E New Lect. Hall Mr. Smith, Sec. F New Lect. Hall Mr. Walsh, Sec. K, L New Lect. Hall Economics 4 Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Final Exams Today and Tomorrow | 6/7/1933 | See Source »

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