Word: kern
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...final round of this year's Ames Competition in, Langdell court room next Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Peter Woodbury, judge in the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, first circuit, will be the chief justice for the case, and John E. Murdock and John W. Kern, both of the United States Tax Court, will preside as associate justices over the mock Commonwealth of Ames...
...Harry Truman won his intraparty cat-&-dog fight (see The Presidency), voters chose two politically pallid rivals to contest for Harry Truman's old Senate spot. Smalltime publisher Frank P. Briggs, now filling the seat by appointment, breezed through the Democratic primary; Republicans went overboard for James P. Kern, well-to-do Kansas City lawyer...
...Centennial Summer's outstanding virtues: the unpretentious plugging of its pleasant music (one of the late Composer Jerome Kern's final movie chores before his death in 1945). No melody is bellowed from a stage or smothered in a big production number. Every song is tossed off, impromptu style, by whatever talent happens to be standing around at cue time. Even Constance Bennett, who presumably never took a singing lesson in her life, has a fling...
This unusual song-selling technique keeps the story moving with carefree charm. But it's brutal on the tunes. Of all eight new Kern melodies (including the already popular All Through the Day and In Love in Vain), not one sounds good enough to compete with Ol' Man River or Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
Artie Shaw, whose previous two wives were Lana Turner and Jerome Kern's daughter, Elizabeth, said that he was now separating from Mickey Rooney's exwife, Ava Gardner, after eight months of it. The bandsman explained: "We simply got on each other's nerves...