Word: drove
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable. He had the motor supercharged and drove about in it for two years...
...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...
Died. General Gerardo Machado y Morales, 67, onetime (1924-33) President and terroristic Dictator of Cuba, who shot dissenters in the back or fed them to sharks, and whose own officers drove him from Cuba in 1933; of abdominal cancer; in Miami Beach...
Biggest event of Villard's boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest event of Villard's manhood was the collapse of Wilsonian liberalism. Between these two catastrophes he studied in Germany, took over his father's paper, the New York Evening Post, when he was 25, fought for woman suffrage and good government, backed Wilson so ardently that disillusion...
...making of The Flying Irishman, its star failed utterly to adjust himself to the behavior expected of an international celebrity. At his first studio press conference, he offended his employers by explaining that his pay was $50,000, after the studio had announced it as $100,000. Corrigan drove to & from the studio in his 1928 Franklin, once delayed shooting for 30 minutes when it broke down en route. His lunches in the commissary rarely cost more than 25?. Corrigan got his first view of The Flying Irishman last fortnight, week before its national release on St. Patrick...