Word: raptness
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...exasperated critic notwithstanding, there was really a great deal to see besides bedroom ladies, some 3,500 works in all-processions, cavalcades, crosses, St. Anthony in a dozen poses, cardinals, heroes, canals, churches, inscrutable dishes of fruit, chaotic spasms of pigment labeled "Mood," "Flight" and other rapt generalizations. . . . There was a sturdy young Russian landscapist who has been studying of late years at the Philadelphia Academy, Captain Vladimir Perfiliev, erstwhile of the Don Cossacks. He had painted the grim mountains of Montenegro and the bright Balkans beyond, and if you went with him to his studio he had some very...
...afternoon President Coolidge pressed a miniature gold spike into a peculiar contrivance; the two Senators and the five Representatives from the state of Washington stood by in rapt attention; almost instantaneously wheels began to go around in a municipal power plant at Tacoma, Wash. Next day Mrs. Coolidge took up a trowel and smeared a great big stone all over with mortar?not just the usual lady-like dab?and the Y. W. C. A. then had laid the cornerstone of their new building in Washington...
...SPLENDID SHILLING?Idwal Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against...
...infamous, shocking. The duty of the Carnegie Tech student council lay clear before it. Clothed with great dignity, it met behind closed, guarded doors and received Dr. Church to hear any explanations he might have to offer. Dr. Church was full of contrition. With rapt sincerity he said: "There is nothing at Carnegie Tech that can be called drunkenness. . . . Like Hamlet, I have shot my arrow o'er the house and hurt my brother. . . . All the statements attributed to me which reflect upon our student body, I withdraw. ... I express to you, one and all, my deep sorrow. . . ." He went...
...draw about the rummaged bones their traditional glamour, judiciously intensified and sympathetically explained. So here we have a florid Woman's Byron, contrived by a rather superior Elinor Glyn, who assures the finicky that she departs from historic truth "never knowingly," without once removing her rapt and gleaming eye from the hungry hosts of spinsters and pensive wives who will embrace her hero, "so winning, so unwon," in raptures which the poet's fame will certainly excuse...