Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penalty for removal of a Lion Dog from within the walls of the Forbidden City, was the "Death by 10,000 Slices" or some other ingenious execution. The dog, regarded with religious awe by Chinese masses, was as much a mystery to them as to foreigners. The Emperor's dogs were his constant companions. They rode before him in the saddle, lay beside him on the couch, sat with him on the throne. To him the association attested his own divine nature. On his favorite beasts he bestowed titles of duke and prince, regal incomes, princely retinues. Puppies were...
...Goldberg, 20, of Purchase, N. Y., was regarded as the most important contender in the meet. Now a student at University of Wisconsin, Goldberg has been building and racing models in the U. S. meets for about five years, usually takes highest honors. Younger boys speak of him with awe. Officials laud his sportsmanship...
...well, picked up his lifeless body, carried it to the lobby. House Physician Dr. George Calver worked vainly over it. Mrs. Eslick hurried down from the gallery where she had been listening to her husband's speech. Members of the Bonus Expeditionary Force gaped from the gallery in awe-stricken silence. The House adjourned after the first death on its floor in 98 years...
...empire, the current which vitalized Kipling was the imperial spirit of the Victorian age. A new race, which knows not the white man's burden, is at work. The White Hussars no longer drink to Queen and Empress in broken glass, and respect for the Sahib has ceased to awe the naygurs. Lalum, who was like unto Lilith, now imitates her western sisters as she sees them portrayed in the cinema...
...granduncle Georg, who had once been a conjurer, he lived in thrilling awe. Though the old man was dying of heart disease, he put on many a magic show to please the child. Afterwards, when his uncle was lying on his deathbed, he stole the magic paraphernalia, put on a show of his own at the village inn. Only the quick wit of his goddess, Eva Veeders, who could turn cartwheels in & out of rooms without brushing the doorposts, saved him from disgrace...