Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...challenge Aldington's facts one by one. All of them professed to have long known that Lawrence was illegitimate, but based their objections on the propriety of saying so while his 93-year-old mother was still alive. Most of them also conceded that Lawrence was an incorrigible ham, who loved to posture and pose in his outlandish Arab regalia and often embroidered the truth. "Finding they wouldn't believe it," Lawrence himself once wrote a friend, "I told them lies." The ire of Aldington's critics was directed far less at the existence of sordid facts...
...style of defensive play. "Heck," he says, "I'd rather block a shot any day than score. It seems to do more for team morale." It also does something to the opposition's morale. Russell's breaking out of nowhere to stretch out a ham hand and ruin a sure basket can take the heart out of the best players around. Once he got warmed up, he and his teammates hardly had to exert themselves last week to gobble up Loyola (65-55) and St. Mary's (69-48) on successive nights...
...fanciful world of comic strips, Cartoonist Al (Li'l Abner) Capp and Ham (Joe Palooka) Fisher have at least one very real sentiment in common. They despise each other. On public platforms and to newspaper editors all over the U.S.. Fisher has long charged that Capp is a purveyor of pornography. To back up his charge, Fisher has carted about huge reproductions of Capp's cartoons with the supposed pornography marked. Bluff, rollicking Cartoonist Capp, who started out as Fisher's apprentice 22 years ago, also gets off some free-handed statements. In an Atlantic Monthly...
...last bobsled ride ten years ago at the age of 68, the sleds are no more than a flexible framework of tubular steel mounted on two sets of strong steel runners. Just about the only way they differ is in the steering apparatus. Most drivers prefer a wheel. Ham-handed Fritz Feierabend uses short ropes hooked directly to the steering runners. "With ropes I can feel the ice," he explains. "I get much more sensitivity than with a wheel...
Massey, an old ham in his own right, is marvelous as the grand old ham. Furthermore, the tendency to spasmodic delivery in long speeches that has marred most Massey readings in the past, is scarcely felt in this one; when he leaves the picture, a third of the way through, the heart somehow goes out of it with...