Word: awe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known as the "Duce" and only as the "Duce." Nobody has any right to speak of him in the ordinary manner that one refers to common human beings. He is above all. Even his title is not to be taken in vain. It should only be pro nounced with awe and reverence...
Gary, Morgan, or because it was a "billion dollar" corporation in days when such corporations were objects of more awe and alarm than they are today, U. S. Steel remains as it has been for many years, the popular embodiment of U. S. capital, U. S. industry. When U. S. Steel directors meet, there is news; when they elect directors, it is an event. Thus the U. S. public was last week more interested in the election of two new U. S. Steel directors than in British steel mergers, however far-reaching...
...gilded coach, two empresses followed in slow procession, the first, Dowager Empress Marie, to be greeted with huzzahs of adoration; and the second, Alexandra, with a sudden silence, variously interpreted. Baroness Buxhoeveden, friend and lady-in-waiting to the last empress, says the crowds were struck dumb with holy awe. But Princess Radziwill, member of the St. Petersburg aristocracy Alexandra failed to please, calls the dumbness "a solemn, ominous silence . . . majestic absence of emotion on the part of the multitude...
...break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed her last week with a sort of awe "La Grande Catherine de Finance...
...greatest of all the old still active fighters went last week to Lou Stillman's gymnasium in Manhattan to have a work out. Lou Stillman's gym is an attic, stuffed with smoke and people ; the people, when this fighter entered, looked with awe on his fat stomach and his burly arms...