Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...show that the first edition was, or the fifth. But it seems infinitely duller. Carroll still has an eye for good-looking girls, but gone is all sense of showmanship, glitter, pace. An interminably long revue, and a slave to routine, the new Vanities rotates a song number, a ham comedian act and a leg parade all evening, like crops...
Afterwards the pupils went downstairs to the boiler room, there quietly watched a science teacher dissect Fat Stuff. They saw where bacon, ham and pork chops come from, saw Fat Stuff's stomach, lungs, liver, heart. In a few days any pupils who have the appetite for it will be able to eat Fat Stuff in the school cafeteria...
...radioactive Orson Welles, who recently grew a Falstaffian beard, Cinemactor Errol Flynn's Christmas gift was a ham with beard attached...
...grounds that such persons are likely to be slugnutty and irresponsible. "The wisdom of the founding fathers," trumpeted he, "led them to the view that youngsters under 21 were, on the whole, too foolish to vote. But not having envisaged the possibility of such weird economic philosophies as 'ham & eggs' or '$200 a month,' it apparently never occurred to them that there might be an age beyond which people would also be too foolish to vote...