Word: awed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...journalistic giant who inspired such awe began his newspaper life early. Son of a well-to-do parlor radical, Albert Brisbane of Buffalo, who paid for space to run a doctrinaire column in Horace Greeley's New York Tribune, Arthur Brisbane was educated abroad, mostly by tutors, turned up on the old New York SMI in 1883, aged 19. At that time the SMI thought extraordinarilv well of itself, encouraged its young men to write long "literary" pieces. Thriving young Arthur Brisbane was made the Sun's London correspondent, wrote a famous account of the fight between John...
...Department store models tried and failed to live up to their skiing costumes. Fancy skaters whirled on the miniature rinks. In the steam-heated cellar below the snowdrifts, agents for innumerable winter resorts and ski-supply houses set up booths. Bug-eyed at these goings-on, spectators reserved special awe for the two items of the wintersports show that really explained why it was there. One was a snow machine, the other Hannes Schneider...
...real are the chances of Edward's marriage to Mrs. Simpson that Prime Minister Baldwin just made an agreement with the head of the Labor Party not to force an election on the issue of Parliamentary approval. Repeated warnings from the cabinet have failed to awe the King, and the London Times speaks guardedly of the creation of a Council of State, the machine which carries on a monarch's duties when for some reason he is unable to fulfill them. Edward is like a bull in a china shop, breaking traditions every time he moves, and it is clear...
...astonishing increase in deposited wads after examinations. Students evidently seek solace from nervous tension in gum-chewing. Rather significant, however, is the fact that the number of wads in Memorial Hall after an exam cannot compare with the number deposited in Sever and the New Lecture Hall. The awe-inspiring nature of the edifice must exert a restraining influence on the chicle-grinders. Especially heavy sufferers from deposits during exams are the so-called "examination boards" laid across armrests for the occasions...
...afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise...