Word: astounder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Augustus Lindbergh was a child of six whose father had just gone to Congress from Minnesota. The Wright Brothers were making sensational flights, staying in the air as long as 1 hr., 31 min., 25 4/5 sec. But not until the next year was Louis Blériot to astound the world by flying across the English Channel. If young Lindbergh had a hero the year Taft campaigned it was doubtless President Roosevelt, with whose son, Quentin, he used to play in the White House grounds. Legend says that "Cheese" Lindbergh was one of the boyish gang that inspired Quentin...
Laughing, gay, eloquent, M. Manoilescu appeared before his judges to astound them with the news that Prince Carol sought not the throne but only a place in the Regency council. Said he: "The Prince is too loyal and decent to think of dethroning...
...Theodore Roosevelt could be let down from the battlements of Heaven in a parachute and began without warning to say the things he said 20 years ago, he would shock, astound and paralyze the American people...
...Glencoe, Ill. William T. Tilden II, lean-faced histrion, dearly loves to make a great gallery prickle with the delicious belief that it is about to see the defeat of a champion, dearly loves to astound that gallery with a crashing, irresistible rally...
With a brand new paper suitcase, in look-me-over suitings and silk cravat, small boys see themselves in dreams returning, rich, famous, to astound the goateed station agent, the paunchy hotel proprietor, the sheriffs, rumdums and soda clerks of their old home town. Last week, Lawrence Tibbett, 28-year-old U. .S. baritone who came to fume one evening in Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan (TIME, Jan. 12), returned to the hamlet of Bakersfield, Calif. His traveling appointments and haberdashery were in perfect taste. In the local opera house, he lifted the voice that had made...