Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epitome of chivalric behaviour, he graciously declined, and returned it to the girl who had passed the plate to him. She raised her eyebrows above the rims of her glasses and exclaimed, "You are ruining the system!" A conservative and Gov major, Vag accepted the plate with the ham, pinapple, and spinach. But he decided to ignore the food and concentrate upon the blonde across the table from him. "Do you often get ice cream for dessert...
Such treatment of religious themes, peopled with Cookham's ham-handed menfolk and bosomy barmaids painted in flat, low-keyed colors, has kept Artist Spencer a storm center. Harrumphed Fellow Artist Sir Winston Churchill: "If that is the Resurrection. I can contemplate with considerable equanimity the prospect of eternal sleep." But it has also brought Spencer fame, if not riches, including membership in the Royal Academy and the order of Commander of the British Empire...
...waiting for the swept-up pieces, Averell Harriman will be standing by-but not idly. He has already made one foray into the Middle West, for a speech last month in Des Moines. (Harriman gave this critique of his Des Moines performance: "What they think about out there is ham and corn, and I was both hammy and corny.") Next fortnight he will fly to the Northwest for appearances in Seattle, Eugene and Portland, Ore., and Lewiston, Idaho. Early in December he will speak at the national convention of Young Democrats in Oklahoma City...
Solomonic wisdom); the three-meals-a-day routine is too arbitrary.
...Lory's adoring eyes Cash is something of a Neo-Renaissance prince of a man. He flies his own remodeled B26, made his first million before he was 30, and can discuss equally knowledgeably the merits of Italian ham or the life of Buddha. However, when Grant Austen learns that he panicked too soon on Suffolk Moulding, and that McCall is about to unload the company at a $1,000,000 profit, he sees Cash only as a king-size heel. Before the gold dust settles. Cash gets a chance to prove his good faith, and does...