Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bankrupt antique store and early training in chemistry led him to the perfume business. Knowing U. S. socialites' awe of royalty, he was careful to see that every one of his packages was liberally sprinkled with crowns, with PRINCE MATCHABELLI in large type. He died six weeks ago in Manhattan, had seven Russian princes, Conde Nast and the Hearst Press's Cholly Knickerbocker among his honorary pall bearers. But he left no will and his next of kin is his brother, Ito Matchabelli, who still lives in Leningrad and who by U. S. law will share his estate...
...been a naval officer and a Captain in the Irish Guards with a distinguished War record. He is now director of three great London papers (Evening Standard, Daily Express, Sunday Express) and a part-time gossip columnist who has learned to overcome the British public's innate awe of a title by writing with elaborate earthiness. Fortnight ago His Lordship turned his attention to the menace of aerial bombardment during the next...
...crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves before a great marble statue of St. Joseph, gazed in awe at the multitude of discarded crutches, braces, trusses which filled the alcoves and niches of the crypt. And of the throng of pilgrims many a halt or ailing one passed on through the crypt to a little office where sat a little old man, known to all as Brother Andre...
...Byron, Romantic Paradox," is a defense of the man as an artist who "knew what he was doing and why." It forms a stimulating and novel approach, a treatment equally without impudence and undue awe of the glamorous genius who today is commonly either relentlessly attacked or blindly upheld...
Instantly fire-eating patriots organized the Organ Theory Destruction League with shouts of "Death to Dr. Minobe!" and last week they were only too eager to put Premier Okada on the spot. Cried the Admiral-Premier: "When I contemplate Japan's august national structure I am overwhelmed with awe! Of course I do not agree with the Minobe theory and I will carefully consider what my government can do about...