Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ham & Eggs" & Harry. He campaigned without fear against "Ham & Eggs" in 1939 when it was in its full flower in California. He also posed-while party workers wrung their hands-for pictures with Harry Bridges, then the state's No. 1 Bogeyman...
...hostess' kitchen, Clem scribbled notes as Mrs. Franc L. McCluer expertly handled a 25-lb. Callaway County ham. Out at the Dick Scruggs farm, where it came from, Kitty Scruggs told her: "Between you and me and the gatepost, this sugar-cured Callaway the folks so cherish originally came from Boone County. The recipe came to Callaway when I came as Dick's bride." Mrs. Roy Anthony, in charge of the angel food cakes, scoffed: "Worried? Why, no. I've never had a failure, so why would I now, when it's for Mr. Churchill?" Grocer...
...Prepared to attend a luncheon of the tired people who worked out the steel wage-price formula. Menu feature: a Missouri ham. Said one alarmed wag: "I hope he doesn't appoint it to something...
Harry Truman held up some G.I.-drawn war scenes for all the White House reporters to see. The drawings were wonderful, he said, because they were done by artists who believe in an infinite capacity for taking pains. No daubs, he added, grinning-none of that ham-&-eggs school...
Somebody asked him what a ham-&-egg artist is. The President illustrated it with a southpaw pitch, as if throwing something at an imaginary canvas. Their paintings, he said, look as if they stood off and threw...