Word: anoint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High-church priests may now anoint the sick. (This practice, thought to be Romish, was not previously canonical.) To the Burial Service, least Christian of the rites, have been added more selections from the New Testament. The Psalms have been corrected for mistranslations, but still do not conform with the Biblical version. A petition for travelers by air has been added to the Litany...
...slide out of New York Harbor with him on his yacht, leave him in Europe, later have an idyll with a boy-artist, who in turn leaves you, then it is a natural thing to settle quietly on the French Riviera. There your past blends with the background. You anoint your conscience with self-pity. You maneuver and wait in righteous patience for the boy-artist-or something equivalent-to seek you out. After years of waiting, you become very, very lonely...