Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John Corbin: "An audience exceptionally intelligent and cultivated in the art of the drama followed his performance with rapt attention and breathless interest...
...sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...
...does not seem credible that mere blindness could be responsible for this insistence that the country be burdened with an enormous army and navy that it clearly does not want and will continue to reject. It is almost impossible to believe that the Administration is so rapt with the dreams of the past that it is incapable of discerning "the signs of the times"--signs which have been repeatedly thrust upon its attention. Rather more is it probable that Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors are attempting, in a last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments...