Word: raptly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...other had flown back to San Francisco to make a speech. A performance of The Barber of Seville had been canceled to give him a platform in the War Memorial Opera House. By the time Harry Truman strode on stage, he had provoked the U.S. into rapt curiosity. But the President did little to satisfy...
Before a select audience of 250 rapt ladies and a dozen faintly bored gentlemen, some 13 bosomy A.E. Associates in flowing evening gowns gyrated gracefully about a stage in earnest imitation of atomic forces at work. An ample electron in black lace wound her way around two matrons labeled "proton" and "neutron" while an elderly ginger-haired Geiger counter clicked out their radioactive effect on a pretty girl named Agriculture. At a climactic moment, a Mrs. Monica Davial raced across the stage in spirited representation of a rat eating radioactive cheese. Mrs. Davial, it was noted in the program...
...past three years, more & more Britons have been listening with rapt attention to a BBC program called Bird Song of the Month. Even non-bird-lovers have been won by the personality of the show's M.C., excitable, 68-year-old Dr. Ludwig Koch. Says Producer Desmond Hawkins: "The charm about Ludwig is that he is one of the few fanatics left...