Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moss Hart, bearded like the part, returned from a Pacific tour in The Man Who Came to Dinner. The playwright swore he was now through with both beard and acting: "Whatever ham...
...Rollain, Randy Phillips, D. Williams, and Ben Nielsen last weeks playing the role of spenders and the mancers in many of the Hub's finer night spots. Finest, they agree, of the traveled fun spots was the Statler officer's dance, where Phillips retained the "best" honors in the "Ham" department by leading a little dance riot. Sue be liked stompin' at the Savoy...
...Arthur Vandenberg changed his mind, as the people were changing theirs. The change was perceptible even before Pearl Harbor: Vandenberg never had the Chinese Wall mentality of a Wheeler or a Nye or a Bennett Clark or a Ham Fish. The change became marked at the Republican conference at Mackinac, where Vandenberg, once he was sure that G.O.P. internationalists had no intention of selling the U.S. down the river, found that actually he was not far away from their views. The change was sped by the private conferences which Vandenberg, as a member of a Foreign Relations subcommittee, had with...
...grass (the President's favorite Fala trick) during the hymn. In spite of barking furiously at the parting volleys, he was led away quietly at the end-still the best-behaved of Roosevelt pets (predecessors nipped ex-Senator Hattie Caraway and wolfed down a dozen plates of ham & eggs from the servants' dining room...
...Osnabrück's intact suburbs, German civilians thrust food and schnapps on the invaders without thought of payment. Department-store shelves were crammed with linen, stockings, blankets, perfume, cameras. Cellars overflowed with fine French wines. British Commandos who took the town lived opulently on champagne, ham & eggs, ripe strawberries...