Word: hamming
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...Senator need worry at a Mesta party if he cannot quote Oscar Wilde, if he thinks Picasso is a ham & eggs painter, or is unable to pronounce the name of French Premier Queuille. In the new, hearty Mesta milieu, the lorgnette has abdicated to the guitar. Said a friend: "You go to a great many beautiful formal houses here where people barely speak above a whisper. You go to Perle's, and you know it's going...
Both too lurid and too grandiose, The Big Knife writes of lost idealists, in whom there was always something of the ham or the hack, as though they were fallen archangels. It stirs little real sympathy for them. Designed as scathing tragedy, it emerges as botched melodrama which often suggests an ugly farce...
Over two-thirds of the world's hams are concentrated in the U.S., but the greatest percentage increase has been in the U.S.S.R. Much of the Russian equipment comes from U.S. war surplus stocks; many Russian hams speak excellent English-which is rapidly becoming the international ham language...
...Many Red hams add chatty notes to their cards. One QSL card arrived from Rumania bearing the casual, newsy footnote that a neighboring ham-his call letters were given-"has just been arrested...
Soviet encouragement of ham activity seems odd, but the Red bosses have undoubtedly discovered (as did the U.S. during the war) that hams are a ready-made pool of communications experts whose services are invaluable...