Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Topsy, a Pig, & Grandmama. Father Rupert Potter, a barrister, was as awe-inspiring as Jehovah (see cut). In London's respectable Earl's Court, he and Mrs. Potter ate breakfast, alone, in absolute silence. Then Mr. Potter went to his club. At 1 o'clock, a small cutlet and some rice pudding went up to the nursery by the back stairs. Then a Calvinist nurse named McKenzie came and took little Beatrix for a good walk...
Boasting a mysterious Tiffany plate in the running board, Appleby's car has a ga-goo-gah type horn that inspires the awe of fellow motorists. "There's no glowering as you go by," he affirms, "only smiles...
Whether one agrees with Hansen or Hazlitt, he must recognize that the latter is setting the economist a well-nigh impossible task. Forecasting the "long-run" effects of any policy calls for the talents of a Nostrodamus far more than for the skills of a social scientist. The awe-inspiring speed of twentieth-century technological change, and the sweeping alterations which it makes in social structure, render any long-range prognostication a risky business at best...
Dark, fierce-eyed Otto Klemperer has the awe-inspiring, fiery look of an Old Testament prophet. And, like Job, he has been sorely afflicted. Last week, at 61, after years of tragedy, Conductor Klemperer was making a European comeback...
...Columbus stands in awe before a gang of drinking, striking, shooting Americans. Says he: "I can't possibly discover America. What would they say in Europe when I tell them what I have seen...