Word: raptness
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Sarah Bernhardt, Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Taft visited The Hights to pay their respects to California's poet laureate, but it became notorious for the succession of girls in their teens and 205 who stayed there and left rapt testimonials. Samples: "I was his Empress and the Hights was our Empire," "Joaquin was such a wonderful lover." Fearing for his own women relatives, Ambrose Bierce wrote down an emphatic promise: "If that woolly wolf, Joaquin Miller, doesn't keep outside the fold, I shall come down and club him soundly...
...come there to be married to a frog-faced murderer named Jose Ortiz Munoz, called El Sapo (The Bullfrog) by his fellow inmates. Demure in a green frock and red shoes, Maria de Jesus mooned over El Sapo, natty in a clean striped uniform, as he listened with rapt attention to the district judge...
...also practicing the two rules that still guide her career: 1) "Actors should be overheard, not listened to," and 2) "The audience is 50% of the performance." Shirley Booth without an audience is as improbable as an Easter Parade without hats. She prefers to do her stuff before rapt thousands, but will give just as intense a performance for an audience of one. Her first husband, Radio Comedian Ed Gardner, says that Shirley is always acting, on stage and off: "She sincerely believes in her self-cast roles. One day she would be a grande dame nobly giving...
...sudden detachment of the retina of his right eye. With his left eye also in danger, weeks will pass before Segovia's doctors can tell whether his eyesight will be saved. Before entering the operating room, Segovia asked for his guitar, closed his eyes, and played before a rapt audience of doctors and nurses. "Now I know I can go on playing even if I remain blind for the rest of my life," he said...
...told, 154 artists from 24 states were represented, and most of them seemed to be doing just what they have been doing ever since the war: abstract paintings in all sizes, shapes and colors. The work bore such titles as Sleeper No. 2, Third Theme, 47, Vibration and Rapt at Rappaport's. The color patterns varied from shades of Tabasco red to jellyfish grey; some were done as geometrical designs, others as waving, leaflike forms, weird blotches of black & white, or blazing skyrockets of paint on canvas...