Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years ago when the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra was in its golden age under Arturo Toscanini, a dark slip of a boy with intense brown eyes and a rapt expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist...
...last Friday I was, as is my custom, listening with my usual rapt attention to the "March of TIME." At 5:54 p. m.-P. S. T.- it was suddenly interrupted by a violent quake, not my first, for I have experienced several in the past 22 years. I anticipated at least some disturbance in Radio-station K. H. J. which, as an associated Columbia station was broadcasting your wonderful program. While others promptly hastened from the premises I hastily began dialing for some report upon the quake. I found I could pick up a number of stations northwest...
...would have been easy for the director to make the love incidents into an over-luscious and trivial idyll, but instead he has managed to give them a distinct epic quality. Similarly, he might have reduced the religious emotion to the common denominator of funeral-parlor music and rapt faces photographed through gauze. Instead, the impressive pictures of St. Peter's and the deep chanting of the choir are allowed to tell their own story without sugar coating. This reviewer has never seen such an authentic setting-forth in a film of the hypnotic power of the Church of Rome...
...Washington the House Ways & Means Committee gave him its respectful attention while he flayed the present currency system. The citizens of Charlotte, N. C. shrieked with ignorant delight when he cracked an obsolete joke which the audience thought was an original Alfalfaism.* The South Carolina General Assembly listened in rapt attention while he outlined the economic and political dangers ahead...
...aviators, in a state of nervous disorder produced by their experiences in the War, are trying to regain their composure by conducting a light-headed patrol of Paris barrooms. They are so engaged when they come upon Nikki near the door of a crowded saloon holding, with a rapt expression, as though it were a chalice, a cocktail glass containing a set of false teeth. In company with...