Word: raptness
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...patriarch of the Hofnagel family, holding aloft a length of red string. "Birth, life and death. Sun. moon and stars. Father, mother and child." The old man is "doing for" a neighbor's sick baby. From head to foot over the infant, lying on a table beneath his rapt gaze, he draws the red string from which he then plucks some invisible thing and casts it aside. He mutters "sanctious words," with his own hand scoops away the evil aura enveloping the small body. Smiling, he refuses payment from the reassured mother...
...have religiously read the perfect newsmagazine since the memorable presidential campaign of the Brown Derby whom you caused me to love, and have been for two seasons a usually rapt and rarely disappointed listener-in on the "March of TIME" which IS the best of informative radio broadcasts...
...convince 'em, if you can, that the reign of good Queen Anne was culture's palmiest day," challenged Gilbert, and the Vagabond took up the gauntlet. It was first in the grotto at Twickenham that he sought the substance of culture, but a high-pitched voice reciting from a rapt bevy of matrons...
Twenty years ago when the Metropolitan Opera's orchestra was in its golden age under Arturo Toscanini, a dark slip of a boy with intense brown eyes and a rapt expression was usually concealed where he could watch and hear all that transpired, not on the stage, but in the orchestra pit, where his father played a viola. The father was a Belgian. The son, Leon Barzin, had been brought up in New Orleans but the rest of his youth was to be spent in Manhattan where, by the age of 20, he had achieved a second violinist...
...last Friday I was, as is my custom, listening with my usual rapt attention to the "March of TIME." At 5:54 p. m.-P. S. T.- it was suddenly interrupted by a violent quake, not my first, for I have experienced several in the past 22 years. I anticipated at least some disturbance in Radio-station K. H. J. which, as an associated Columbia station was broadcasting your wonderful program. While others promptly hastened from the premises I hastily began dialing for some report upon the quake. I found I could pick up a number of stations northwest...