Word: hamming
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Tallulah Bankhead, who regards Tom Dewey as "a phony ham actor," but thinks Harry Truman "a wonderful little man," did some hamming of her own at a Manhattan rally, in the famed, florid Bankhead manner...
Recent balloting has boosted Ellon Bower '50 to the president's chair of the Annex Orchestra. Alicia Steeves '51 will take over the dual post of vice-president and treasurer, and Claire Ham '50 was elected secretary...
...Wyman plays the mute with sweetness and considerable skill. Mr. Ayres is modest and sympathetic. Mr. Bickford and Miss Moorehead do solid jobs of character acting. Stephen (formerly Horace) McNally is a vigorous personality and also a very good actor. In some stretches the picture is just well-sliced ham, but in others it is so good that it hardly seems possible the same crew made...
...stage at that remark which manages somehow to spread out into the audience: perhaps the playwright has not misjudged the audience after all.) Nevertheless, the young man continues, everyone loves Gay and just hates Gerald because he is so mean to her and is, in addition, a terrible ham...
...anyone who has struggled over his own ham and tomato salad, the size and scope of operations in the main kitchen are appalling. Entering by the main receiving gate, you are at once confronted by rows of trucks piled high with sides of meat and sacks of potatoes. As you wander through the passageways, you see stainless steel cauldrons 'filled with soup stock; huge insulated cold storage rooms; and massive east-iron ranges sheltered under bulky smoke hoods...