Word: hams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...actors inaudible beyond the fifth row. The Stockton (Connecticut) Players are giving a triangle play called The Usual Three and, as might be expected, the onstage geometry has its offstage counterpart. The visiting leading lady is the ex-wife of the visiting leading man. She gradually realizes that this ham is still pretty much her meat...
...baseball's biggest swell-head. Elmer, whether on screen or stage, has for years and years been Joe E. Brown. For those interested in statistics, his mouth has stretched exactly one-eighth of an inch, which only makes his smile the more enticing and allows him to shovel down ham, doughnuts, milk and pie in an increasing ratio throughout the play. Between these two processes, Joe E. is as human, lovable and Laughable as ever...
...Willkie, open-mouthed in admiration of his brother, his lips mumbling over the words as his brother spoke them. Invariably he led the applause; then waking as from a dream, would push a way to the waiting automobile with Mrs. Willkie, his gentle voice more effective even than the ham-hands that had made him an All-America tackle and an Olympic wrestling champion...
...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...
Cline noticed that the German blockade had not affected the food situation in England and that rationing applied only to sugar, butter, bacon, and ham to prevent a shortage in case of crisis in the future. Plenty of all foods could always be obtained without a ration card in restaurants...