Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...name on earth--long since mightlest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name a eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or brightness to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on". STOCKTON KIMBALL...
...conjuring-wand for dreams. Since the era of Joseph and Moses the land, half-shrouded in its veil of mysteries, has tinged with its own strange color the thoughts and actions of men. Antony learned there the subtle, inexpressible charm of the East; Napoleon and his army stood in awe before its pyramids; Shelley drew a moral philosophy from a fallen "Ozymandias"; and the modern world stands at the newly-opened tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen and finds therein another Renaissance...
...fame has spread abroad, and it is, by reputation at least, as familiar an interest in the University as any--except for its exclusiveness. Only the privileged have been able to share in its rites, and on that account it has assumed an atmosphere of mystery that inspires awe and admiration in profane minds...
...pedestal an idol, at which she may gaze with fond adoration. A Farrar, who made the flappers shriek with grief as she bade them adieu from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, or a passionate twentieth century Valentine, who makes his audience stare with awe as he wrecks the lives of tearful cinema ladies, may easily become, the objects of feminine idolatry...
...intelligence needs to be convinced of its essential evil. The parting advice of Washington is impartial and conclusive: "All combinations and associations under whatever plausible character with the real design to direct, control, counteract or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities are of fatal tendencies...