Word: anointed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name of art anoint...
...elders of their Church anoint 900 crippled, blind and diseased holy rollers with oil, which seemed to benefit some...
...Anoint yourself with oil and apply the medal of St. Joseph. Make a novena to St. Joseph and persevere in prayers...
Amelia Earhart Putnam, Ladies' Night guest of honor at Manhattan's Explorers Club, prepared to present a blue Persian kitten as club mascot. William J. Morden, Asiatic big-game hunter and explorer, announced that the aviatrix. in accordance with ancient Inca custom, would anoint the cat's feet with oil to prevent its straying from home. Boomed a voice in the rear: ''Bill's wife says to put some oil on his feet...
...Washington pictures, the gallery audience was only slightly larger than that which attended the G. 0. P. meeting. National Chairman Raskob, often accused by Republicans of trying to "smear Hoover," got a titter when he said he had looked up "smear" in the dictionary and found it meant "to anoint a dead body with sacred oil before burial." Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army prayed. Mayor Cermak rumbled a speech of welcome which soon descended to a partisan harangue. Then Senator Barkley, tall, paunchy, all in white, launched vigorously into his keynote address (see p. 12). Most delegates, mindful...