Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand neatly dressed, ham-handed delegates of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen & Helpers of America crowded into Washington's Constitution Hall one night last week and sat with eyes glued on the stage. From the side appeared an engrossed little group of men, convoying a towering figure. The audience rose, whistling and roaring. Candidate Roosevelt, sober-faced, in the glare of four white spotlights, still under convoy, crossed the stage...
...rural community. Placed shrewdly at a time in the Georgia farm calendar when it is too early to pick cotton or pull fodder, too late for plowing, the camp meeting gave Georgians a chance for chatting as well as churchgoing. Camp ers downed prodigious meals of fried chicken, country ham, barbecued beef, Brunswick stew, stuffed eggs, potato salad, corn on the cob, pie, watermelon, iced tea, lemonade, Coca-Cola. Even after such meals, old Dr. Bascom Anthony could stir his congregation...
...score on Uncle Sam in the most shameless courtroom bid for an Oscar since Paul Muni's blow for liberty in Zola. At this point Gable redeems himself with the first sensible line in the show. Says he: "I didn't know he had so much ham...
...played the role before, both on the stage and in the movies, is a plausible and funny Elmer. Marvelous to witness was the enthusiasm with which he tore through food at each performance. In the course of an hour and a half as Elmer, he consumes a slice of ham, a batch of fried potatoes, four griddle cakes with syrup, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee, two apples, half a grapefruit, a glass of orange juice, two doughnuts, a slice of toast and a bit of shad roe. Only recently released from a Los Angeles hospital, where (after...
...farmyard, let alone an empire." He dislikes his task, but takes comfort in the thought of sailing, on the morrow, for Spain and the quiet life. Kidnapping, hurricane, shipwreck, a Crusoe sequence delay his return. When he finally sails, a more distinguished passenger is Columbus, in chains, with a ham actor's pride in his martyrdom; still hopeful, hot-eyed, still straining after the Golden City of Cambaluc...