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...tight-lipped Baptist Goodspeed retired from the University of Chicago faculty in 1936. When he entered the graduate school the late President Harper reportedly advised him: "Now Edgar, don't rush through!" He took the advice literally, spent 38 years of teaching there. Students liked his mixture of ham acting, old-fashioned oratory, prejudices. But many faculty members found him a bit too conscious of his family's long association with the university. His father was secretary of the trustees, did yeoman work in coaxing $600,000 out of the late John D. Rockefeller to start the university...
They took along sandwiches: egg-&-pickle, cheese, and ham. The Old Fisherman liked the ham sandwiches best...
...lovely old town of Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn, a dish of green field peas, ice tea and hot biscuits with...
...creates while you are waiting for that lascivious interlude that you came to see. The only trouble is that in spite of the title and the "Adults Only" sign it just isn't there. Besides this, humor is also provided by the 1930 vintage vehicles and clothing, and the ham acting, which is just that in its purest state. "Fleet" is as good as it was a year age which is pretty terrific. If you ignore Dorothy Lamour and drink in the talents of Eddie Bracken; Betty Button, and Jimmy Dorsey and all his crew, you will have a wonderful...
...wholly shocked to learn that any person could even suggest that the Government should be run by such men as Senator Taft, Ham Fish, Colonel McCormick, Senator Wheeler and John L. Lewis, not to mention Governor Bricker, among the greatest dispersers of nonsense in the Midwest...