Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cigars were passed, to the surprise of many a Protestant leader present. One of them smiled, said the gesture was like "serving ham to a Catholic on Friday." Catholics had provided both meal and cigars, so everybody laughed and went right on talking shop-Roman Catholic to Methodist, Jew to Episcopalian, Lutheran to Congregationalist...
Chungking made itself ready. The Official guest bungalow, bright as its rhododendrons, was equipped with a powerful radio, a cook who could range from ham & eggs to Szechwan duck, and-another great luxury for China-soft toilet paper. But Wendell Willkie would only have to look out of his windows to see the great ridges packed with colorless shacks where Chungking's hundreds of thousands were enduring their sixth year...
...Butch Minds the Baby will be warmly prepared. The talk is the patented Runyon brand of Times Square Swahili, in which a worn-out race horse is "practically mucilage," and marriage is described as "one room, two chins, three kids." There is the usual Runyon corps de ballet of ham-hearted grifters, heisters and passers, played by a friendly crowd of veterans from Hollywood (Eugene Pallette, Louise Beavers) and Broadway (Sam Levene, Millard Mitchell). Carefully solemn Henry Fonda has the dignity of a wax grape of wrath among satiated little foxes. Pretty Lucille Ball, who was born for the parts...
Culbert Olson was helped to the Governor's chair by enthusiastic support from the remnants of Upton Sinclair's EPIC following, Ham 'N' Eggers and from organized labor, to whom he had promised the pardon of labor's martyr, Tom Mooney. He since infuriated the Ham 'N' Eggers by turning down their fantastic pension plan, sponsoring one of his own. When war came, others were impatient with his dalliance: for months he bickered with the legislature over providing an adequate State Guard...
...many soldiers have fewer comforts, less to do on Saturday night, less discipline from above than these bearded, weather-tanned engineers. There is little saluting. A worker accepts a captain's order with an "Okay, Ham." More than 40% of the engineer workers are Negro. As men on a battlefront, these engineers are challenged to fight it through or lose. Against the mountains they work too hard to be restless. There is little talk of women. "But," laughed a colonel, "I'm sorry for the first town they hit when they get away from here...