Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarked wryly that he had had to stop Milwaukee delegates from presenting him with a piece of Wisconsin cheese. Said Murray with his thick Scots burr: "Whilst the intent is good, it obviously would not be in good taste for the President . . . under these circumstances to either accept a ham or a piece of cheese...
Died. John Joseph ("Jumping Jack") Jones, 67, the House of Commons' "most ejected member" (1918-40); of heart disease; in Leigh-On-Sea, England. Burly Laborite from London's tenement-jammed West Ham, he heckled contemporaries as "damned liars," "assassins." referred to Commons as "the national gas works." Ejection was Commons' method of silencing...
Fair, well considered criticism of an individual or organization is in the end always salutary, but your editorial, "Smoked Ham" (Nov. 14), clever though it may have been, was neither fair nor well considered. One swallow does not make a summer, and one lapse of taste in its selection of a play does not signify, as that editorial stated, that the Harvard Dramatic Club is on the road "to hamdom." But the editorial went further than this and implied that the Club was already on that much-trodden road before the affair of "The Trojan Horse...
...third production, William Gillette's "Too Much Johnson," can be defended on the grounds that it is an amusing period piece belonging to the Mauve Decade, a play that ran for years to the laughter of our fathers and grandfathers. In fact, if the writer of "Smoked Ham" will look back over the plays preformed by the Club during the past five years, I warrant that he will note nothing trashy about ninety per cent of them. They were plays that could not have been seen on the commercial stage and were worth the seeing...
...negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...