Word: lombard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife of two seasons mighty-eared Cineman Clark Sable has lately been "Pappy," and his name for blonde, scatter-whimmed Carole Lombard has become "Ma." Aware also that their appearance at Sam Goldwyn's superspecial, star-stacked Greek War Benefit was characterized by the seemliest reticence, Hollywood magi took counsel among the stars, forecast that another Gable would shortly be added to their house...
...Robert Montgomery) and Mrs. (Carole Lombard) Smith comes an embarrassed little man from the town where they thought they were married, to explain that they are not married at all, because of a legal technicality. To tease his wife, Mr. Smith puts off asking her to remarry him until she gets thoroughly fed up, tosses him out, refuses to marry him at all. Amusing to this point, Mr. and Mrs. Smith for the ensuing reels becomes a sly, exasperating chase, in which the frantic husband tries to recapture his wife, eventually (with the help of a pair of skis) succeeds...
...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, accompanied by loving wife Carole Lombard, went dimple-chinned, he-mannered Clark Gable, 39, to find out what was wrong with a broad but aching Gable shoulder. "Hurry up," groused he at photographers, "I'm not feeling so well." Next day dental surgeons found what they claimed was the root of Actor Gable's ills, yanked an infected molar...
Perspiring gently, the audience sat still, in some nervousness. In the front row, not grinning, was big, jug-eared Cinemactor Clark Gable, in a chalk-stripe grey suit; his wife, Carole Lombard, in a funnel-like black hat with a veil, a simple black afternoon dress; Secretary of State Cordell Hull, white-faced, as sombre as his dark suit; and the President's mother, Sara Roosevelt, in a grey-blue evening gown...
...Birdwell left his job as head of Selznick International's publicity department to set up shop for himself. Three pretty secretaries guard his locked inner office, where he works long & hard creating gags for Selznick (whose account he still handles) and a number of individual actors like Carole Lombard, who are willing to pay as much as $25,000 a year to keep their names conspicuous...