Word: raptness
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Unusually rapt and breathless was the attention that three Harvard students were giving to one of their lecturers one day last week. Their pencils poised industriously, following his every word, they took careful notes, glanced knowingly at each other. But their jottings were brief. Their real work came when the lecture was over: when, surrounded by a group of their fellows, they added up the marks they had made on their papers...
Though she lost her point, Jeritza won San Francisco for her own. The audience jamming Civic Auditorium sat in rapt attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come...
...enough to turn the pinion wheels of a microscope, small and studious Bashford Dean began to study natural history. His interest in armor also began early. When he was six years old he visited the home of one Carlton Gates in Yonkers, stood for half an hour in rapt contemplation of a beautiful Maximilian helmet. Four years later Carlton Gates died, his effects were sold at auction. Ten-year-old Bashford Dean insisted on being taken to the auction, was heartbroken when the cherished helmet went for more money than he could afford. Clutched in his small and studious fists...
...rapt audience of Czechoslovak Legionnaires last week, towering snowy-haired President Masaryk told the story of the great debate, used it to point the moral of Czechoslovak preparedness...
...York," he said with a sigh and a rapt look in his face. "I'll say it's a good town. Wish I could get down there. But there is one trouble with New York. There's so much competition. It's terrible. There ought to be a law against...