Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen seemed to be in esthetic agreement with Harry Truman. They had done their best to represent what they saw. None of it could be called "Ham...
Deerfield attackmen scored repeatedly on screen shots and cut plays with Phil Cranshaw and Ham Gates doing most of the stick work. Pete Peters scored five times for Deerfield while Cranshaw netted three. Curtis Cushman playing point for the Crimson defense held Gates, the Deerfield captain and an All-New England prep school star, to three goals...
...week's end, with the show still going strong, the operators were beginning to wonder if Lewis had them in mind at all. Who was the old ham really playing...
...most plays seem chaotic; so do most geniuses. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings might argue him a clear well of disciplined, harmonious art; but in his son's backstage biography, My Father Who Is on Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers; as Reynard, whose affection...
...owing to a faulty oil gauge on the plane, we put down unexpectedly at the Prescott, Ariz, airport and unexpectedly found 1) a restaurant serving my kind of ham & eggs, and 2) a subscriber with a new angle on TIME. He maintains that it is a very tough magazine...