Word: unctions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...empty studio, waste his vast voice every 15 minutes or so saying "WJZ, New York" during station breaks. For these exalted and lowdown services, his basic studio salary, after 18 years, is about $80 a week. Commercial jobs pay much more, but Milton Cross's extreme unction is unsuited to most commercial shows, which usually require more extraverted talent...
...wears a general's star. Ordinary chaplains have no rank, but a captain's pay, wear religious garb behind the lines, khaki at the front. By special dispensation from Rome, all Catholic aumƦniers and other front-line priests may hear confession, give extreme unction, sing mass at portable altars, at any time under any conditions...
...puzzled Town Hall clubsters, meeting to discuss "The Business Man and the Arts," Chairman Wendell Willkie, president of Commonwealth & Southern Corp., with great unction read a silly telegram from a serious man: ". . . Please extend to all of the [Pulitzer Prize] winners my hearty congratulations . . . Franklin D. Roosevelt." Explanation: The club originally planned to honor the Pulitzer winners, requested a Presidential message, changed its mind without notifying the White House...
...last moments of a Pope. To Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, Grand Penitentiary of the Holy Roman Church, Pius XI, propped up by pillows, whispered his confession, received absolution for his sins. Then attendants washed the Pope's face, hands and feet for their anointing in the last rite: extreme unction. The Monsignor Sacristan, Alfonso de Romanis, parish priest of the Vatican, sprinkled the still room and its grave company with holy water. "Thou shalt sprinkle me with hyssop, 0 Lord, and I shall be cleansed...
With holy oil Monsignor de Romanis touched the Pope's closed eyes. "By this holy unction and His most loving mercy may the Lord pardon thee whatever thou hast sinned by sight." The dying man's ears, nose, mouth, hands, feet by holy unction were shrived. With the others' low voices joining in the responses, Monsignor de Romanis prayed: "Make safe Thy servant, my God, who trusts in Thee. Send him, 0 Lord, help from Thy holy place, and defend him out of Zion...