Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flicker, the owner's 20-year-old son, into a back room. Then Bill began dispensing hospitality. "Well, gentlemen," he cried, rubbing his hands as his astounded victims cringed, "what will it be? It's all on me. You only have to order." Nobody said a word. "Ham and eggs!" cried Bill. "In a moment, sir!" Soon he was cooking and serving ham and eggs. Most of his customers looked ill. A few even spoke up to say they didn't want any. It did them no good at all. Laughing Bill served them. They ate. More...
...outbreaks throughout the U.S., and only three minor cases were traced to milk products: one each to cheese, ice cream and eggnog. Still more surprising, only one outbreak (66 cases) involved shellfish. Otherwise, the old standbys in the spoilage and upset-stomach routine were to blame: cream-filled pastries, ham, turkey, chicken and tuna fish salad...
...brick Tudor house in fashionable North Indianapolis, Ind. Frank McKinney, Indiana's top machine Democrat, and his wife Margaret greeted their old friends. The Trumans went in, washed up and sat at the McKinney's dining-room table for lunch (melon-ball cup, breast of chicken on ham, asparagus, stuffed oranges, hot rolls, black currant preserves, strawberry angel...
Also announced yesterday was the appointment of Frank S. Ham '50, a freshman proctor, as chapter secretary succeeding Judson T. Shaplin '42 8G, Director of Freshman Scholarships, who has served in the post for six years
...buffet luncheon (orange juice, lemon ice, roast beef, ham, candied sweet potatoes, potato salad, peas, asparagus, mushrooms, lettuce, onions, whole-wheat rolls, fresh strawberry pie), the President protested, "Oh, my belt line!" He had just gone on a diet, he said, but at 182 lbs. he is still 6 lbs. overweight. In a mellow, after-meal mood, the guest of honor told Beltsville's hands that he stood firmly behind the kind of research they were doing. Someone mentioned the President's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, who had once been Agriculture Department information director (1928-40). Chuckling...