Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Following Weeks to the microphones was the well-known Hibernian patriot, Henry Cabot Lodge, who told his rapt audience that Al Smith's entire family was voting for Dewey and Warren. Lodge then had several nice words for Senator Saltonstall, Governor Bradford and Mr. Weeks. On the way back to his seat, he also said that Joe Martin was a very fine fellow...
These, who might have come straight from the vicar's garden party or a charity bazaar, wore the rapt expression of idolaters as their hero spoke. Behind them and around them stood the thousands of the crowd-the voting public. They wore the garb and they had the faces of the working class; they came from the motorcar factories of Cowley, near Oxford, from the shops of Banbury, from the farms of Oxfordshire...
Victor Moore lowered his bubble-shaped person into a lovely marble tub, assumed a moderately rapt expression, and, clutching his cigar, gave the world a change from the usual bubble-bath picture (see cut). The secret of his basketball-sized bubbles he kept to himself...
...Washington's Willard Hotel 511 rapt students from 36 states plunked down their $12 tuition fees. In return they received an intensive four-day course in "practical politics" from the faculty of the National Citizens Political Action Committee. They were also handed some conflicting clues in the search for a liberal political party...
Last week in the newly opened American Library at Frankfurt, whose shelves are loaded with periodicals from the U.S., earnest young Germans were deep in the study of U.S. economics, politics, geography and literature. None was more rapt in concentration than a thin, hungry-looking youth bending over a slick, glossy magazine in the corner. "I came here," he explained, "looking for a geographical magazine, but I picked up this one. I couldn't resist the temptation...