Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
Back in September 1940, a similar shortage forced President Roswell G. Ham to issue a stern edict forbidding the Maids of the Mount to use water for any except the most vital personal needs Baths and showers were out. The CRIMSON gallantly came to the rescue by wiring the Mount Holyoke Student Council that ". . . Harvard men find best way to make friends is sharing common bath facilities. . . Our showers are big enough for two, N.S.Y.P...
...there is Dartmouth, when the bell rings for classes ending, it plays everything from Mr. Five by Five to the Ave Maria. I heard them both. Those students are all as big and as tough-looking as ham-and-egger pugs, and they go in for checkered shirts, and G.I. fatigue pants...
Quaint Holy Cross posters like "Virginia ham will be our bacon" got an airborne answer yesterday noon as a monoplane with an unidentified Crimson partisan at the wheel strafed the Worcester campus with leaflets...