Word: unctuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...played an old slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which...
...other countries this might well pass as a particularly unctuous and ingratiating compliment to the Top Man paid by a sycophantic professor. Indeed the awful blasphemy was not at first perceived by Japanese educators and was taught for 29 years not only by Dr. Minobe but by other professors supervised by the Ministry of Education. Suddenly the mystic fanaticism, the blind patriotism and the excruciating reverence for the symbolic EMPEROR, in whom Japanese really worship Japan, exploded (TIME, March 18, 1935 et seq.), and Dr. Minobe was forced out of the Imperial University. He resigned from the House of Peers...
...skirts of the Imperial Victoria will swish and the unctuous tones of Disraeli will whisper in the council chambers as Britain girds its loins to once again resume the "white man's burden." Gouty lords and Cockney navvies, with tongue in ruddy British cheek and sturdy British finger crossed, will cheer King and Empire as the British Army arrives in Addis Ababa to save the black man from himself and to collect the taxes. England will self-sacrificingly exploit the natural resources of the country and grant the natives splendid positions paying as high...
There was the line, the widows from Winsor: "Oh, how do you do, Mr. Smythe. Indeed I do remember you!" But it's Smith, Madam; as in Smithsonian, you know. "Smithsonian? Indeed I have seen it. Rare specimens there; yes, yes." And there were the ushers unctuous and important with gardenias. There was the music of an orchestra, and the husky crone of a singer: There was "Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life", there was, "The Lady In Red". There were loud voices, there were louder glances. There were immaculate dress shirts, and there was the Vagabond's. There were laughing...
...really awkward matter was how to dress up China's current economic and political situation so as to appeal favorably to Sir Frederick Leith-Ross. Before leaving Nanking unctuous Dr. Kung made the sweeping claim that he has "freed Chinese farmers from 4,100 items of extortionate and illegal tax levies" since he became Finance Minister. As the brothers-in-law got busy, their cruiser anchoring in the safe middle of the river off Kuling, they were joined by the Chinese Ambassador to Japan. General Chiang Tso-pin, and the former Chinese satrap of what is now Manchukuo...