Word: raptness
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...Tokio, he visits his Aunt Teresa, a domineering invalid who in 1914 rapt Emmanuel Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...
...neutral territory between the rivalrous twins. No President had been in the vicinity since President Wilson called in 1919. In 1921, Vice President Coolidge spoke at that very spot and met a chilly reception. In spite of wind and rain, a crowd of 100,000 or more stood in rapt attention last week, while the President, speaking from the judges' stand opposite the grandstand, praised the Norwegians who first came to this country a century ago. The Norwegian Minister of Labor, the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Storting, the Bishop of Oslo, the rector of the Royal...
...lovers of loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without his permission, advertised the ''March King" cigar. He asserted that, beyond the mere trespass upon his name or af front...
...order of precedence. Now one, now the other, according to the temper of the times, prevails upon thought. The Italian artists before Giotto, borrowing the immaculate but dispassionate wonder of the Greeks, painted women whose faces were abstract as algebraic ellipses; later, yielding to a subtle warmth, their rapt, expressionless madonnas began softly to smile...
...toning down his words of high praise, Mr. Lament reminded his rapt audience that he did not mean that all Italy's difficulties had been overcome...