Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen two especially remarkable, though perhaps temporary, conversions-of New York's gangling, muscle-bound Ham Fish, and excitable pinko Vito Marcantonio. Fish took the floor to condemn the bill unsparingly until his colleague, New Jersey's white-haired, red-faced Charles Aubrey Eaton, quietly asked him how he was going to vote. Representative Fish gulped heavily, admitted that he would vote for the bill, faded out of the debate. Same evening little pinko Marcantonio, who had firmly voted against all national-defense appropriations and foreign-policy moves, jumped up, shrieked...
With star stagger-back Peter "Ham and" Dammann out with severe internal injures, the undefeated CRIME outfit will meet at Art Hopkins' Club at 3 o'clock to play spin the bottle for the honor of taking over...
...Texas used to be known for its longhorn steaks, but Miss Sheridan has given the state a reputation for ham. May we add, for Miss Sheridan's benefit, that most performers, including football players and movie actresses, turn in bad jobs at one time or another--the only point of distinction being that some of them got paid for their performances...
...call him Popsy to his face. Yet he did not act like a lonely, reserved bachelor -he was always dapper, always nimble on his little feet, always ready for fun. He loved carnival life: Coney Island, Hollywood, roller coasters, ice cream. He gorged himself on everything from terrapin to ham & eggs, ate from three to six desserts, became "irritated" if his friends stopped at one. An opera, painting, baseball fan, he astonished musicians and sports experts with his lore...
...second week of Prohibition (aqua variety) began in South Hadley yesterday, rumors of revolt against the totalitarians anti-bathing edict of President Roswell G. Ham seeped into the outside world...