Word: unction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international jewel-and-art thieves. But the man who has survived the horrors of home (including a terrible little lap dog) is more than a match for sinister Boris Karloff, the Goldwyn Girls in full bloom, and even rotund Thurston Hall, the screen's unrivalled embodiment of extreme unction. Just in the nick of time Mitty saves the blonde and himself from a fate worse than death...
...TIME, July 24, 1939), allows three minutes, 15 seconds out of every daytime quarter hour; two minutes, 30 seconds out of every nighttime quarter hour. The extra 45 seconds in daytime may account for much of soap opera's sales pull; also for much suffocating boredom. The merciless unction of long, repetitive commercials struck both U.S. listeners and U.S. advertisers as downright incongruous in the days just after Pearl Harbor. The advertisers' reaction apparently wore off, but a certain public feeling remained, especially about commercials that try to capitalize on the war effort...
...Netherlands last week the Arch bishop of Utrecht and four Catholic bishops, in a pastoral letter read in every Dutch Catholic church, proclaimed their refusal to administer extreme unction or bury with Catholic rites "Liberals, Socialists, Communists and National Socialists," forbade Dutch Catholics to join Nazi groups...
...been at big (1,419 communicants), fashionable St. Luke's since 1924. There he has introduced, but not publicized, two services which most Episcopalians do not even know exist, though provision was made for them in the last prayer-book revision of 1928. These are Holy Unction (anointment of the sick with olive oil specially blessed by a bishop), and a Laying on of Hands at the altar rail for spiritual healing. Father Conkling says: "I have never known a single case where there was not some benefit, spiritual or physical...
...pious exercise. Hecklers and speakers alike were delegates to the ninth annual National Catholic Evidence Conference, which met last week at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. In arguing over confession, extreme unction, miracles, indulgences, purgatory, the Pope, they were demonstrating tactics for open-air meetings from Boston Common to Los Angeles' Pershing Square...