Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trim, glib, tireless Mrs. Katharine St. George would not be downed. Her opponent for the Republican Congressional nomination in New York's farmerish, four-county 29th District was earnest, colorless Lawyer Augustus Bennet. As a Good-Government candidate in 1944, quasi-Republican Bennet had unseated Republican Ham Fish. Mrs. St. George, who takes her Party straight, had a low opinion...
...stopped worrying. A first-string hostess of Tuxedo, a first cousin of Franklin Roosevelt, a member of the board of governors of the Women's National Republican Club, vice president of the St. George Coal Co. and an expert rider, she was politically irresistible. What's more, Ham Fish was 100% for her, and down in the bottom of its heart, the 29th District still liked Ham...
...shoreside loiterers blink-a white creation with a wide bill and a billowy crown which flopped like a tam-o'-shanter. Thus arrayed he was driven to the Plum Beach home of his new naval aide, Captain James H. Foskett, where he contentedly attacked a heaping dinner of ham and chicken...
...Coffee, white and sweet, $10 up five cents hamburger, $20 up five cents cheeseburger, $25 up five cents Daley's frappes from $15 to $20 Gold Coast Valeteria Isundry; shirts, $15 to $18 pajamas, $22 to $25 Wursthaus all prices up on food and drinks (found nature) Hazen's ham sandwiches...
...denying the report of an increase in the price of a ham sandwich, the manager of Hazen's pointed out that ham prices had gone up less than beef but that customers, particularly at night, demanded hamburg. If customers asked for the less-costly product, he said he would not buy the more costly...