Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Election Day two old age pension schemes known as "Ham and Eggs" and the "Bigelow Plan" were turned down by voters in: 1. Michigan and Minnesota...
...there any characters in Snow White to compare with J. Worthington Foulfellow, the actor-fox, who sells Pinocchio to the puppet show, or his shabby, screwloose, unscrupulous companion, Giddy, the cat. In satirizing this pair of ham actors, Disney is working on a new plane. This is no longer the playful caricaturing of old Wood Carver Geppetto, the frolicsome kitten or Jiminy Cricket. Foulfellow and Giddy are savage adult satire. They are even out of place in a children's picture. But they suggest the direction Disney may take if he ever makes a greater picture than Pinocchio...
There is at least as much danger of ham in treating of a hideous woman as in treating of a beauty. Only supreme restraint or daemonic force can make either right. Author Inglis-Jones, lacking grandeur in both, has yet enough force and craft to make a good romance. But it is by no means, as advertised, a "minor masterpiece...
Fortnight ago a bandy-legged Billiken with a massive gargoyle head, a nose like a Bartlett pear, ham hands and fiddle-case feet, popped out of Central Park woods in Manhattan and loped off around the reservoir in a tiger-cat trot. Manhattanites who brisk around the reservoir in wintry weather are generally game guys, but one gander at this interloper was enough to send some skedaddling...
...Richmond's conservative Commonwealth Club 200 Virginians and their guests last week gathered to dine on terrapin stew, beaten biscuits, Smithfield ham and orange ice, toast Argentina and the U. S. in brimming glasses of champagne. Cause of these happy doings: a preview that night at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts of the largest show of Argentine art ever put on outside South America. Said Argentine Ambassador Felipe A. Espil: "A country's artistic creations are the best exponents of its psychology and temperament." Eighty-year-old Counselor Robert Walton Moore of the U. S. Department...