Word: unction
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...most part the music is no more than characteristic, "king of the Sword", "Believe in Me", and "What-ever It Is, I've Got It" are near-exceptions rendered with unction by Walter Woolf, Helen Gilliland and Lupino. The book is an in-and outer. A line drawn from the best of the gags--"Familiarity breeds attempt"--would bisect a line from the worst, which is something about horse and hoarse, somewhere near "Do you believe in the hereafter?.... Well,that's what I'm here after...
...look at it. The University which is beaten in the Boat Race has been able hitherto to console itself by declaring that to lead on the river has always been to lag in learning. That consolation can now be either substantiated, or blown away as a false and flattering unction to which no man nor society of men would care to be indebted. For many a year Cambridge has sneered at the vagueness of the Oxford mind, and Oxford at the petty particularity of the Cambridge mind: there must be learned men in the Universities of London, Birmingham and other...
...need not think that when you made out your examination paper, with the express and unmitigated purpose of flunking me out of college, I did not recognize your intention. Lay not that Battering unction to they soul. Bloody, but unbowed. I could, except for my pride . . . on yet. I have my pride . . . tell you the story of my childhood. You would pity me then. It would rate an A. My father hit me on the head with a paper-weight, one summer by the sea, bluer than a vast, incalculable blue book, gleaming in the sun. Beauty. But there...
...Brooklyn freight yard a priest gave extreme unction to Brakeman Richard O'Connell. He lay caught between a derailed switch engine and a 70-ton freight car. A wheel of the car held one foot; the other was wedged in the engine pilot board. If the engine backed away, he would be ripped as men rip legs off bullfrogs. If the car rolled towards him, he would be grated over the bars of the cowcatcher. So he sprawled there, content with the priest's ministrations, hopeful that the rescuing railroad men who were jacking...
...obligation to society. They had decided that it was incumbent upon them to furnish future citizens with "internal control" now that those declining agencies, the home and the church were no longer effective and now that society was abandoning "external control." The teachers of Oregon were feeling the full unction of their mission-and were now waiting to be addressed by that great champion of public education, the ousted president of the university of the great neighboring state of Washington, Dr. Henry Suzzallo...