Word: awe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of "da cops," Widener should purchase this copy of Esquire, bind it in Morocco, label it in letters of rare gold and slow it away in come ultra-exclusive stack for future generations to stare at in awe-this article; not the purty pictures hat go with...
...seemed to be waiting for something important to happen. One group where a white-haired man with blazing eyes was listening intently to a gesticulating Negro particularly caught Vag's attention. The colored fellow's eyes bulged out like white hen's eggs as his face expressed his awe at what he was describing. Vag asked a bystander who the white-haired gentleman was and received the reply, "Cotton Mather, Harvard's next President--worse luck." That was very puzzling, for Vag was as sure that James B. Conant was still President as he was that men wear pants. Just...
Last week a little group of people got together in Manhattan in an atmosphere of unaccustomed awe. They were friends of James Joyce-Editor Eugene Jolas (transition) and his wife; Poet Padraic Colum and his wife; Robert Nathan Kastor, brother of Joyce's daughter-in-law; others. Fortnight before, a terse cable had announced that the author of Ulysses and Finnegans Wake was dead in Zurich. Joyce's friends were forming a committee to aid his widow, daughter...
Public appreciation of the Lemp family series (Four Daughters, Four Wives) is still pretty evenly divided between the eye-easy charm of the Lemp ladies and awe at the way the Warners continue to juggle the affairs of four recklessly reproductive families without balling up the plot, the personnel or the customers...
Generally speaking, in fact, the bards appear to be tongue-tied by their theme -perhaps through awe, perhaps through shame over faked emotions...