Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Louse It Up. Pollard grew up in Butte, Mont., spent his teens as a horse wrangler and ham-and-egg fighter in cow-town clubs. It was on Seabiscuit that he rode to fame. But during the summer of 1938, when the great bay horse was training for a race with Samuel D. Riddle's War Admiral, Pollard broke his left leg. "George Woolf, a nerveless rider who was called The Iceman,' was assigned the mount on Seabiscuit," says Alexander. "A few days before the race, a national network asked me to conduct a two-way radio program...
...Rose Tattoo. Anna Magnani, in her first Hollywood film, gets the year's loudest laughs as she demonstrates why Italian ham is a delicacy (TIME...
...bowlegged, ham-handed lad whose arms hung down to his knees, "Hans" Wagner was a Pennsylvania coal miner at twelve, a barber a few years later, when he came up to the light and air. Then in 1895 he tried semipro baseball. Big League managers who looked him over were scared off by his clumsy walking gait. Only Ed Barrow, who later built up the New York Yankees, stuck around to watch popeyed as the fleet-footed Wagner covered ground in tremendous toadlike leaps, smothered the ball in his huge hands. Barrow wasted no time signing the youngster to play...
...lowans may live on ham and corn-but J they despise condescension ("hamminess" and "corniness") from anyone. Let Harriman join ; those who have "foot-in-mouth" disease, and sink into oblivion...
Blondes never appreciated him. "Okay, I'm wrong," and he returned meekly to his cold ham. The meal proceeded uneventfully until the waitress (a student) asked if he wanted pudding or an apple for desert. "What kind of pudding...