Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While bending every effort to drive the war effort on, the Administration blatantly is being checked and even over-ruled by many of the States. Long a threat to our unity, even in peace-time, State trade barriers are today contributing magnificently toward ham-stringing the accelerated war program. So serious has this sectional bigotry and provincialism become that the President and Mr. Nelson have at last been forced to summon an emergency Federal-State Conference this week in the White House. For months the WPB director has been stymied by the stringent restrictions of State trade barriers which...
Officials yesterday refused to reveal the names of the martyrs who gave up all colored vegetables--carrots, string beans, peas--except beets, and who voluntarily went without beef, chicken, and ham in the interests of science. So rigorous was the test that they would not have milk, butter, or eggs for half a year...
...capital of the news that the Coughlinite weekly Social Justice had been barred from the U.S. mails. The crackdown on Coughlin was not going to stop there. Attorney.General Biddle announced that he would ask a Federal grand jury (the same jury which nailed Nazi Propagandist George Sylvester Viereck and Ham Fish's Secretary George Hill) to indict Social Justice for sedition, on grounds of peddling "enemy propaganda" and "a systematic and unscrupulous attack upon the war effort of our nation, both civilian and military...
...Princeton, in the singles, Tigerman Dick Bender defeated Jim Jenkins, 6-0, 6-3, and Moore smacked Crimson captain Orme Wilson by scores of 6-3, 6-0. Hugh Hyde won his match by 6-4, 7-9, 6-4, while Ham of the Tigers beat Thorne Kissell...
...slavish devotion of the movies to authentic local color and the realism of modern acting have naturally whetted general impatience with the fact that the Met's scenery continues to be predominantly mid-Victorian and its acting in the good old Italian tradition, pure ham with a whiff of garlic. These are real objections that nobody would try to deny, but they have nowhere near the importance for opera that they would for spoken drama. Opera's source, and its principal excuse for existence, is the wonderful physical satisfaction of hearing a well-trained human voice, an appeal not basically...