Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beginning with Bananas. His Montparnasse studio is precisely and elegantly arranged, too, but no one would apply these words to 45-year-old Artist Dominguez himself. Ham-handed and heavy-maned, he does a great deal of painting and even more cavorting. In the course of his career he has cavorted through successively popular School-of-Paris styles...
...Novelist Hilton's hands, this plot goes from ham to Spam. Had he shown but a spark of Carey's fondness for drama, Morning Journey might have turned into as much of a grassfire as Mr. Chips and Lost Horizon. As it is, readers can only look on with morbid fascination while Novelist Hilton earnestly lights the fires of one dramatic episode after another and then, swiftly dropping his matches and snatching up a fire bucket, pours suffocating streams of cold water over the struggling flames...
Nancy Chaffee, 21, a merry bundle of bounce, tells people, "I'm a ham." Last fall at Forest Hills she was soundly defeated by Mrs. du Pont. Chastened but not discouraged, Nancy went home to Ventura, Calif, and set herself a practice schedule: 3½ hours a day, six days a week. At night, when she wasn't appearing on her thrice-weekly television show (in which she and Tommy Harmon, onetime Michigan football star, interview sport celebrities), Nancy pored over strategy diagrams with her father, a tennis pro. Says Nancy: "I used to overpower...
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE (382 pp.) Cecil Wood ham-Smith-McGraw-Hill...
What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...