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Word: awe (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Once fairly into the story, the play moves more easily. The devotion of Peter, the office boy, the man who has cured his back; the dawning affection for the Doctor on the part of his wife; the awe and fear, almost, with which they both regard him, are set forth in the second act. We have the light laughter of the pair as they romp upstairs contrasted sharply with their mouse-like timidity whenever they are where they are likely to meet the Doctor. Again a good curtain is afforded, when the Doctor for the first time emiles at Peter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD PRIZE PLAY AT ST. JAMES | 3/29/1922 | See Source »

...enjoyable to read and learn. The story concerns one Charlotte Baird and her fight against her environment not so much to improve the environment as to keep it from touching her. The fight is a great one, an epic struggle in fact, and could be read with considerable awe if Miss Barrett only could prevent her heroine so continually suffering such attacks as a "surge of tears around the heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSEHLF REVEIEWS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 10/15/1921 | See Source »

...Canada were comrades in arms in the Armageddon of the ages. If they could die together, surely we can live together in amity, in mutual respect, in common endeavor to make the world safer and happier for the generations of the future. "Wild tongues which have not Thee in awe" are the devil's advocates for the "lesser breeds without the law." In the British nations there is neither lust for conquest nor sense of dependence upon other peoples. But there is an immense concern for the world's peace and a deep consciousness of the power of the United...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Canadian Viewpoint | 2/17/1921 | See Source »

...mystic mood and so impelled to pay lip-service to a rare experience? The CRIMSON reflects the tendency of Repute to become identical with Callousness. As one of those branded by the CRIMSON as Hyphenate, I wonder how it feels to brand and all the while bow in awe before an Imperial Idol? J. L. DONOVAN '22. December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Self-Confessed Hyphenate | 12/16/1920 | See Source »

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