Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only" and "daring presentation" publicity that has provided the abortion with packed housed. Yes, people will be dragged to see the ramshackle spectacle once, but only the degenerate or perverted could have the wide-eyed desire to go back and see two and a half hours of unadulterated country ham again...
...Jovial, snow-thatched Albert J. McCray, 71, was not only a Townsendite but a Ham 'n' Egger ("Oh, boy, was I a booster for that!"). Now he runs a drill press at the Douglas plant, earns $51 a week with Sunday overtime, complains only that his foreman refuses to let him work every Sunday. Says Albert McCray: "I haven't been to the club there in some little bit. I'd rather have a job than a pension any time. Why, I'm making better than $175 a month here, more money than I ever...
...into the Army in 1940 Joe was the comic-strip symbol of a clean, fighting American. He never fouled an opponent. Now Joe, like any other U.S. soldier, is up against unsporting enemies, and he must learn to kill or be killed. Says Palooka's creator, jovial Cartoonist Ham Fisher: "No good soldier is going to be polite in real war. Why should...
...German in the back. Some Army chiefs think Joe should go to Officers Candidate School. The War Department's public-relations chief. Major General Alexander Surles, holds that as an officer Joe would cease to represent the average soldier who follows his doings. Probable compromise: the Army and Ham Fisher may make Joe a noncom...
...salty mixture of American ham and Arabian unbelievable. "The Road to Morocco" is crazier and funnier than either of its two predecessors. It would have been the best comedy of the year but the directors and script writers worked too hard. They combined the dialogue and action so neatly the number of good goes are lost while the audience is howling at the slapstick...