Word: unction
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Turncoats. Since success succeeds nowhere faster than in China, victorious Chang Kai-shek was kept busy receiving protestations of "loyalty" from the former subordinate generals of Wu Pei-fu. These gentry, stranded with their bands of mercenary soldiers, turned their coats with unction and alacrity. Among the first was General Yang Sen, until last week nominally subordinate to Wu Pei-fu, actually the petty despot of Wanhsien on the Yangtze, which leaped to international fame when Yang seized two British river steamers (TIME, Sept. 20) and was bombarded by British river warships for his pains...
...expecting to be in heaven before the other. The low-roaders hold only for the two sacraments, baptism and communion, finding "not a shred of evidence" for the high-roaders' belief that Christ is to be reached through five more sacraments-confession and absolution of sins, confirmation, extreme unction, holy orders, matrimony. Neither group acknowledges the ghostly authority of any earthly pope; together they elect a bishop to preside over one and all, and formally their Church is one church, militant...
...gentle shepherd of his flock," wrote Mr. Constantine with unction, "(is) all spirituality...
...reader into the boots of people who knew and felt Walt, bringing his big frame and nature so close that psychological terms are irrelevant and it is unnecessary even to quote the poems to show why they were written, what they mean. If there is a mite of unction spread through Author Rogers' pages, it is not obtrusive nor out of place in a book that is bound to be laid warmly and strongly to the hearts of many people?a book, by the way, from huge presses that roar today on a Long Island plain Walt must often have...
When the curate of the Church of the Sacred Heart, Bridgeport, had administered the sacrament of extreme unction, John T. King, 51, formerly Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut, sank overcome by six days' illness with pneumonia and died. His death closed a strange career. In youth he studied Latin and philosophy to become a priest, but instead became a $7-a-week bookkeeper for an undertaker. He became a bond salesman and learned the art of lobbying in the Connecticut legislature, getting his bonds made nontaxable. He became a power in Connecticut politics, a great friend of Boss (Senator...