Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Disdaining fancy goods for 1940, Sears toned down its hors d'oeuvres page, substituted more staple canned goods: fruits, ham, chicken a la king, salmon...
Grappling for the role of challenger for the world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...
...Best ham: John Barrymore as the incorrigible ad-libertine in My Dear Children...
...named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
California. A Roosevelt ticket (Governor Culbert Olson) whipped a Garner slate, 7-to-1. Ham-&-Eggs ran a feeble third...