Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman Ham Fish of New York suggested that the Germans might post $100,000 for Franklin Roosevelt delivered in Berlin...
Most appalled were Representatives and Senators who had offered to take delegates from their States to breakfast. Game Senator Guffey bought ham & eggs for 400 Pennsylvanians at the South Interior Department Cafeteria. Senator Walsh entertained 60 Massachusetts ladies at his exclusive Metropolitan Club...
...northern reaches of Norway look like a slim strip of bacon compared to the fat ham Germany got. But within that strip lies potential control of Germany's all-important Swedish iron ore supply. French Alpine troops ("Blue Devils"), sent on up from Namsos, were reported closing in at week's end to complete the half nelson clamped upon that region by the British Navy three weeks prior...
...Before breakfast, ½ gal. of buttermilk. Typical breakfast: 1 doz. fried eggs, a huge ½-in.-thick slice of ham, 1 doz. hard rolls, 1 qt. black coffee. Dinner: 1 doz. raw oysters, chicken gumbo, terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw, stewed corn, 1 hot mince pie, 1 qt. coffee; 1 bottle sauterne, 1 qt. champagne, several cognacs. He particularly liked a 7-lb. beefsteak, 1½-in. thick, so rare it was hardly warm.. * A violation of a major canon of the American Bar Association, which, however, never peeped until some...
...Hambro Ham'-brough