Word: cheroots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shine On, Harvest Moon (Warners) turns the careers of vigorous Songstress Nora Bayes (Ann Sheridan) and her songwriting husband Jack Norworth (Dennis Morgan) into a fictional clothesline on which to hang the hit tunes of the sporty, cheroot-fumed decades before World War I. Norworth's resurrected song hits are given too little of the original cornstarch, too much contemporary orchestral bluing, but the pretty, evocative title song and the swinging, swooping Take Me Out to the Ball Game may be around for quite a while. (Of four new songs, the likeliest is Time Waits...
...succeed Premier Saw, arrested by the British last fortnight for dickering with the Japanese (TIME, Jan. 26), the British Governor of Burma last week picked robust, midde-aged, cheroot-smoking Sir Paw Tun, formerly Premier Saw's Minister of Lands & Revenue...
...golfing, swimming Florida retirement barged paretic Scarface Al Capone, grinning grandly from behind dark cheaters, cheroot and flashy cravat, as he headed for Miami Federal Court to answer questions about a matter of $201,347 in income taxes still unpaid...