Word: raptness
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...Reinhardt Galleries went these artists, beheld what hung upon the walls, announced that they pitied the future Governor, that the Pitts- burgh society had their sympathy. They stood before the canvases, spread their legs into sententious V's, curled their lips. Others gazed, rapt, at the same canvases, like people brought before the face of holiness. A few, however, neither knelt nor mocked. "What," asked these, "are the virtues that have made Zuloaga famous ? Wliat are the faults that have made him popular?" Coldly, they considered...
Guest of honor at a luncheon given in Manhattan by the students of the Fordham Law School was Max D. Steuer, famed "courtroom" lawyer. While the rapt students flicked ashes into their demi-tasse saucers, Mr. Steuer told them how to talk to a jury. Said...
...Jerusalem. His thoughts are in the Holy Land. Long has he cherished in his brain the images of the kings and prophets of his people in the old time: Absalom's body, slim as a spear, twisting from the bough on which his dark hair tangled; Moses listening rapt to the voice of God. Unlike that nameless artist who exhibited a blank canvas, declaring that it showed the Israelites Crossing the Red Sea- the Sea pushed back, the Israelites just passed over, the Egyptians not yet come up-Mr. Pann of Jerusalem paints the pictures that his heart perceives...
Cytherea. Not a very sincere or inspired attempt to capture the rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...
John Corbin: "An audience exceptionally intelligent and cultivated in the art of the drama followed his performance with rapt attention and breathless interest...