Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Simplicity and success have not been characteristic of the gigantic corporation until recently, however. Too rapid expansion and ill-health, partially caused by over-work, have caused founder Kitfield not only to discontinue the sale of coffee, hot cocoa, and ham and cheese sandwiches but even to retire from college for the rest of the year. He sold out to buddy Clark...
...every Friday morning, some ten million Britons tune in BBC for five minutes of painless medicine. The rich, soothing voice that pours out of the radio sounds like a ham actor's impersonation of a family doctor. Britain's "Radio Doctor" dispenses no-nonsense counsel that seldom fails to cheer his listeners...
...history of American pipe dreams : a record of nearly three centuries of U.S. bestsellers. It is doubtful if there has ever been assembled any where such a comprehensive list of such complete irrationality, so many ridiculous scenes and characters, so much solemn nonsense and so much moralizing, posturing and ham acting, as in Frank Luther Mott's account of the books which the U.S. public has purchased by the millions...
...consume ten man-sized steaks-one per man. Then, in subsequent meals, they shoveled in eggs and chops and more steak. They hadn't eaten like that since Hitler started his march through Europe. Said Commander C.R.T. Roe, the non-playing British captain: "The ham I ate for breakfast would last a month in England." They ate their way cross-country to Portland, Ore. and arrived on the playing scene as contented, and as unready for battle, as a cat with canary feathers in his mouth...
Onstage, Kay, her blonde hair brushed severely back, looks about 30, but owns to 35. One Hollywood wag says she "has a young face made up of old materials." Says she of her act: "I always wanted to be a big fat ham...