Word: raptness
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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...
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...