Word: hamming
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...affair is terminated by the sudden arrival of her husband and Lord Rocking ham (who gets his just reward) and, more crucially, by Dona's reawakened sense of duty toward her children. The Lady and the Pirate agree that whereas "women will play at adventure ... for a day and a night . . ." sooner or later "they will make their nest." In a line which appeased the Hays Office and should interest the Legion of Decency, the skipper assures his sweetheart that if she returns to domesticity, "nothing has happened which will make your life a pretense...
...Presidential Room of Washington's Statler Hotel were gathered the elite of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America, and the elite of the city's political society-assorted czars, administrators and politicians. They were met together to eat roast chicken, Virginia ham, peas, potato croquettes, salad, ice cream and coffee, to drink California sauterne and, more important, to get an answer to the biggest of the Democrats' political questions: has The Old Master still...
...President, in all his 33-minute address, by his actor's timing, by the voice that purrs softly and then strikes hard, by the frank ham-acting, kept his audience with him every minute that he was on the offensive...
...Angeles meeting had been the second biggest political rally in U.S. history.* What had Tom Dewey gained by it? Enough votes to overcome Franklin Roosevelt's lead in California? If so, it would be a major political achievement. But however well the speech was aimed at the Ham 'n Eggers in Southern California, at the Coliseum it was a total flop. The newsmen wrote it down as another demerit for Dewey...
...assuage this feeling McNaughton intervened. The Dieppe raid was originally planned by Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten as an all-British show, but McNaughton persuaded the War Office to let his Canadians take the main role. The raid was commanded from a destroyer by Major General John Hamilton ("Ham") Roberts (who is now in charge of Canadian reinforcements flowing in & out of Britain). The raid won Roberts a D.S.O., but both he and McNaughton had to listen to cries from armchair critics that it had been botched. Actually, the Canadians paid most of the price for the lessons of invasion which...