Word: awestruck
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...last week, Clark Gable got into his cream-colored roadster, picked up Carole Lombard and drove 350 miles east to Kingman, Ariz. There they bought a license from an awestruck clerk named Viola Olsen, and proceeded to the home of a Methodist Episcopal minister named Kenneth M. Engle. In the presence of his wife and a high-school principal named Cate, who later defined their behavior as "lovey-dovey," Mr. Engle made Clark Gable and Carole Lombard man & wife. Gable wore blue, Lombard grey...
...guest this time was just about the toughest boss-man in Eastern Europe, His Serene Highness astute old Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, Regent of the kingless Kingdom of Hungary. If & when Hitler decides to invade Czechoslovakia, Admiral Horthy as an awestruck friend can play the same part that Mussolini played when Hitler invaded Austria. If he does, the $750,000 Hitler expended last week on the Admiral's entertainment will be well spent...
...with having paid no poll tax he re plied: "No politician in Texas is worth $1.75." When they called him a "carpet bagger" born in Ohio, raised in Kansas, he snapped back: "Sure. I moved to Texas 15 years ago . . . because I like Texas and want to live here." Awestruck observers predicted that if he did not get nominated by the required majority, Lee O'Daniel's vote total would be one of the two biggest and put him in the run-off primary. Meantime, Wilbert Lee O'Daniel said soberly: "I don't know whether...
...photographic history edited by Laurence Stallings and just published by Simon & Schuster (TIME, July 31). It showed recruits in camp, soldiers in battle, soldiers wounded, maimed, dead; crowds at home, prisoners being executed, troop ships sinking. Gardner Cowles, who had been too young to go to War, was awestruck. Said he: "What would you think of this as a Sunday feature?" Manager Martin, who had been in the War, blinked through his spectacles, said "I think it would be great...
...intermittent encyclopedia and the Bible. Not the least of her laboratory experiments was, under Stitches' supervision, the dissection of a shark that chanced to be with young- twelve diminutive sharks, 18 inches long. Shortly afterward the schooner touched at a tiny island south of Suva, where Joan, awestruck, watched a native woman bear her child to the tune of torn toms and delirious celebration. Years later, when a landlubber called Joan a water rat the old sailor rushed to her defense: "She's a girl flower, she is, with the tropic heavens fer a hothouse, and the scoldin...