Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...director with effective, quiet irony. Robert Fletcher plays a composer who is a fine comic creation in the first scene and an intensely serious fellow in the tenth. This may be inconsistent, but Fletcher is enjoyable anyhow. Thayer David struts and declaims and is entirely amusing as a ham actor...
...people crowded into town for the doings. U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stanley Reed, Tom Clark and Sherman Minton, all the Kentucky court of appeals judges, the governors of Kentucky and nearby West Virginia were there to honor the home-town boy. They ate country ham and fried chicken as guests of cousin R. L. Vinson, a retired banker. Then came the ceremony at which a bronze plaque, bearing Chief Justice Vinson's mournfully dignified likeness, 'was dedicated. "The happiest day of my life," said Vinson.* Said a whiskered old mountaineer: "For a feller who started life in jail...
...Governor Lawrence W. Wetherby and a group of fellow bluegrass fans hopped a plane and headed for Bromfield's Malabar Farm near Mansfield to convert the heretic. First step: the gift of a sack of bluegrass seed. Further inducements: a case of Kentucky bourbon and a home-smoked ham...
Many prospective club members knew little about such fundamentals as code and machine operation. Because of this, the 17 licensed members decided to teach anyone who was interested enough to pay the $2 membership fee everything a "ham" has to know. This instruction program will be expanded next year...
...group had already done some emergency work during floods, fires, and storms. When the telephone system in Vermont went on the blink this fall, a group of "ham" stations, including W1AF, relayed outgoing messages from the area...