Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is nothing rapt or perfervid about Mr. Edwards. He says quite simply: "That first year the Seminary simply did not click." But he did not think of quitting. The second year went better...
...rapt one, of the godlike forehead...
...forgave Ole Bull for his ready attention to the lower musical tastes. One of the most phenomenally gifted fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...will have to wait for a final OK until after July 20, when she'll be 21. K.T. is quite sure no other actress has been smart enough to use initials. She insists it was her own idea, but feels that the picture of childish absorption drawn by a rapt interviewer in the Chicago Daily News of June 7 is a slight exaggeration...
Downstairs, rapt scullery maids devour its spicy morsels; so, upstairs, does many a lady of the house. Farmers, laborers and millworkers cherish its sinful revelations; so also do royalty, Cabinet ministers, tycoons. Without News of the World, Sunday morning in Britain would lack something as familiar as church bells...