Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas, encountered a sore temptation. During the Fort Worth "Frontier Centennial" he met smart little Showman Billy Rose, who told him he would do well in the movies. When Producer Jesse L. Lasky's Gateway to Hollywood contest set up its sideshow in Fort Worth fortnight ago, star-rapt Parson McClung thought he saw his chance. So did Lasky's talent scouts, who put him down as the best prospect† they had found in many a Texas mile...
...Bethlehem Bach Choir dates from 1898. Its founder was a rapt, indefatigable German-American named J. Fred Wolle who slaved for two years to train local steelworkers and shopkeepers for their first public performance in 1900 of Bach's prodigious B Minor Mass. He conducted every Festival thereafter until his death in 1933, achieved such marvels of choral attack and expression that Bethlehem became almost as famous for singing as for steel. Guarantors who helped him with the annual Festival included Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Charles M. Schwab...
During the prayer, Franklin Roosevelt looked rapt in thought, but during the hymns (O God, Our Help in Ages Past and A Mighty Fortress Is Our God) his fine baritone could be heard clear and confident above the male choir. From church he went to the Capitol to address the joint birthday session of Congress...
...death, a memorial concert has been held in his honor. Last week dignified 66-year-old Stock ambled to his place on the stage of Chicago's long-used Orchestra Hall to commemorate for the 34th time the death of his predecessor. Behind him sat 2,500 rapt Chicagoans, many of them oldsters who had heard their first overture played under Thomas' energetic baton. Solemnly they listened while white-haired Stock conducted Debussy's Berceuse héroique, Richard Strauss's A Hero's Life, Beethoven's heroic Fifth Symphony...
Then, at a stroke, the murder. Then, with a counterstroke, the murderers, using mealy-mouthed journalese, try to justify their crime. In this sudden contrast of shoddy human self-seeking with rapt spiritual self-abnegation, Eliot gets in a brutal and final punch...