Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...North Carolina, the crimes of murder, arson, burglary and rape are punishable by death. Fourteen-year-old Negro Ernest Brooks committed two of them. One night a year ago he broke into a Wilmington home, raped a woman who was eight months pregnant. Caught the next day, Negro Brooks confessed, was sentenced to death...
Bare-kneed, clean-scrubbed nine-year-old Michael Spivak stepped to the podium of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Dignified Sir Ernest MacMillan, the Toronto's conductor, gravely stepped down, handed Michael his birch baton. Michael handed him an ocarina in exchange...
Then nine-year-old Michael Spivak (whose father is concertmaster of the orchestra) gravely led the musicians through two movements of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony. At the proper moments, a two-note "cuckoo" chirped from the orchestra. It was Sir Ernest, on the ocarina...
When Writer-Producers Michael Fessier and Ernest Pagano set out to produce a Technicolor Western, they decided they wouldn't spare the horses. They didn't: the picture cost $1,400,000. They thought it might be a good idea to incorporate all the time-tested chestnuts they could think of. They were confident that stringing all the horse-opera clichés together and playing them straight would be parody enough. Explains Fessier: "We grooved the tongue in the cheek. Why pull punches? We gave them everything...
Divorced. By Ernest Hemingway, 47, masculine, monosyllabic author: his third wife, Martha Gellhorn, 37, author of social novels and Hemingwayesque short stories; after five years of marriage, no children; in Havana. Grounds: desertion...