Word: rapt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messiah. Rapt and gleaming-eyed in Cleveland's vast Public Hall sat the delegates when their beloved leader uprose on opening day to sound his keynote. To outsiders he might seem a dim. ineffectual visionary, but to them he was a genuine Messiah. With an artificial tan poppy in the lapel of his white coat. Dr. Townsend settled his long chin down on his high, stiff collar, glued his eyes on his manuscript, droned out a fierce denunciation of New Deal extravagance. Only when it came to a remedy did the author of the plan to have the Government...
...cooperator, Edward A. Filene, recently gave $1,000,000 to assist the establishment of co-op department stores. Japan's No. 1 Christian, Cooperator Toyohiko Kagawa, completed a triumphal tour of the U. S. a fortnight ago, preaching the gospel of co-operation to hundreds of thousands of rapt churchmen (TIME, July 6). The Kansas City Star was already warning the country that a co-operative system would be the "next New Deal rabbit to be pulled from...
Horton and Jenkins carry off the comedy honors; the Yacht Club Boys, our favorite interpreters of national affairs, are entitled to all the singing prizes, and Cab Calloway makes all the music. There isn't much left for Jolson to do except sink to his knees with a rapt expression. He's the same old Al, and still doesn't mind the gray skys, but we don't like it any better than...
...debit side is the fact that both Gladys and Jan know more about vocal cords than histrionics. But there are many snatches of freshness, and Jan keeps you fairly excited by a fiery vigor amounting almost to daftness. Gladys, moreover, does not invite you to shut your eyes, however rapt you may be on account of here voice. And then, both of them are glorious singers...
...Botany, a book he usually carried in his pocket. He was also a voluble theoretician, writing and speaking lyrically about the esthetics of building. He was constantly in search of the "law that will admit of no exceptions." But if he found it, he never set it down. A rapt listener to "the Master'' in the drafting room at night was a young cub named Frank Lloyd Wright. The panic of 1893 smashed the partnership of Adler & Sullivan. Like Gilbert & Sullivan, neither did as well after disunion. From 1880 to 1895 Sullivan designed more than 100 buildings...