Word: awe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to beat her at her own game. But in 1952 Louella Parsons, after reigning over a quarter century, is still queen of the Hollywood gossip columnists. Her work appears daily in twelve Hearstpapers and is syndicated in some 1,200 others throughout the world. She is held in awe, respect, esteem, fear or terror, as the case may be, by practically everyone in Hollywood who has any connection with motion pictures. Every producer, director and actor reads her column in the Los Angeles Examiner every morning, and each knows that all the others are reading it. That makes everybody...
...copies, which puts it in a class with the dictionary and the Bible. Millions of mothers regard him as an oracle, parents turn out 5,000 strong to hear him lecture, and other pediatricians joke that their main job is to interpret him. One mother stands a little in awe of her child because he was examined by the doctor in school. "I look at Henry," she told a friend, "and I think, he has seen Dr. Spock!" If their mothers are using as well as buying "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," one of five newborn...
...position delights John Fine but it does not awe him. He approaches his momentous decision between Taft and Ike with the same infinite patience, shrewd caution and grave sense of responsibility which he has applied for 30 years to the selection of road commissioners, court tipstaves and dogcatchers...
...last week Maxime Formartin went to the bank, drew out 485,000 Belgian francs ($9,700) of his employers' money in crackling banknotes, and with his usual care and sense of awe stuffed them into his briefcase. He felt giddy; his hand was sweaty, his throat dry. Clutching the briefcase, he hastened into a cafe, gulped a beer. In other cafes he had other beers, finally switched to port. Walking on rosy clouds, he passed a sandwichman who handed him an advertising circular. Suddenly the dream crystallized. Said Maxime: "You have given me something...
...cool professional attention. They point out the more admirable aspects of the case-Jane's struggle to put up with her husband's cantankerous restlessness, her bottomless faith in his genius; Thomas' "absolutely unseducible" loyalty to his wife, his habit of rising to grave occasions with awe-inspiring kindliness...