Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Gillette's voting record (straight down the isolationist line against Lend-Lease, revision of the Neutrality Act, etc.), and 2) by the need to distinguish him from such impassioned new-line Democrats as Claude Pepper and Joe Guffey. Never to be confused with such clamorous isolationists as Ham Fish, Iowa's well-liked, forthright Senator Gillette,"apparently not too old-line to change, was appointed to the Senate Committee which last year wrote the Connally Resolution on postwar world cooperation...
...Indispensables. All the world's great opera houses have claques, and the Met's is typical. Directed by a chief and a staff of skilled lieutenants, it is composed of ham-handed waiters, barbers and ex-musicians who stand at strategically dispersed positions at the back of the audience and, at a signal from their leaders, loose a barrage of claps and bravos. The claque is paid by the Metropolitan's singers, who provide free admission and pay from $5 for a mild flurry of handclapping to $25 for a deafening furor. The late Enrico Caruso...
...creating good will, Stettinius had been successful, too, in his whirlwind London trip in April, where he spent Easter with Churchill, took a fine Virginia ham to the Prime Minister's wife, conferred with General Eisenhower, had a fireside chat with the King, and shook hands with every top diplomat in sight. (In England he was even more tweedy than the British.) Home again, he worked long on an elaborate chart "reorganizing" the State Department. The only major changes proved to be the disgruntled departures of such able men as Dr. Herbert Feis and Laurence Duggan, but this...
Indiana's ham-handed Homer Capehart, the phonograph tycoon, could not wait to don the toga. Six weeks before his senatorial term begins, he bustled into Washington, promptly called a press conference. To newsmen, he was vague on one subject-his international views. He was more specific on another: his Senate committee ambitions. He has his eye on such topflight assignments as the Finance, Commerce, Naval and Military Affairs Committees. On each of these subjects, he confided modestly, he is something of an expert. Back in their offices, the 15 newsmen who had shown up for this "sneak preview...
...sunned on the deck beside the Casino swimming pool. When it was time for a change, they put on sports clothes and ate dinner in the big, patio-styled Cloister. They retired early to their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed by his brother, Tom, 12, on a motor scooter...