Word: raptness
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...sole a shoe only passably, and regarded the putting on of O'Sullivan and Cat's Paw heels a sad bore. He had a great passion for Caruso records, and at times when he should have been hammering and stitching he cranked a phonograph and listened, rapt. At his work he always sang...
...does not seem credible that mere blindness could be responsible for this insistence that the country be burdened with an enormous army and navy that it clearly does not want and will continue to reject. It is almost impossible to believe that the Administration is so rapt with the dreams of the past that it is incapable of discerning "the signs of the times"--signs which have been repeatedly thrust upon its attention. Rather more is it probable that Mr. Wilson and his coadjutors are attempting, in a last-minute scramble, to make the country pay, in armaments...
...reprinting from the Atlantic Monthly the last published words of Frederic Schenck, untimely rapt away,--words, which, by a strange fate, discuss another's guessing at the problem Schenck himself was so soon to solve, the editors have paid a graceful tribute to the memory of a brilliant...
...ending is grossly untrue. It is doubtful if any man ever won his wife by weeping over her future, and enlarging on his hope that she would find a good husband; yet George Arliss does it and the audience looks on with rapt attention apparently oblivious of the inconsistency...
...capable of grasping fundamental ideas. There he was the scientific protagonist bringing the truths and sublimity of science down to the comprehension of humanity; and a journey in his company from Boston to New York realized all our ideas of rapid transit. To see him thus the centre of rapt listeners led one to recall Lowell's "Incident in a Railway Car", in which is portrayed the effect of Burns' humanity on humanity; and we will substitute science for Burns...