Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PLUMED SERPENT?D. H. Lawrence?Knopf ($3). Here lies Mexico, a sullen nation of black obsidian, brooding beneath a cruel sun. Christ hangs dead upon his cross and the name of Mary is a sterile myth in dusty shrines. By night, among the peons, the old gods stir, the Aztec gods. Quetzalcoatl, the bird-snake, is come again from "the cave which is called the Dark Eye, behind the sun," where the waters rise and the winds are borne on the waters of the afterlife. Through hia priests he brings a new manhood and womanhood, to be entered by night...
...Yacht. One Albert C. Burrage leased his steam yacht, Aztec, to the Government during the War. He later claimed $325,000 for repairs, $60,000 for the loss of the use of the yacht. His attorney succeeded in getting $300,000, said attorney being the Hon. William Gibbs McAdoo...
Just as European tradition has curbed any distinctly American phase in Art, so has the recent interest in Egyptian treasure held attention from valuable discoveries of ancient Mexican work. Friezes, bas reliefs, curious pottery and many other Mayan and Aztec antiquities collected by Francisco Cornejo are to be brought to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum...
...king of antique Aztec fame...
...sure, Mr. Edison denies any knowledge of Spanish or Mexican royalty in the family, but the newspaper statement, "Inventor descends in straight line from Aztec ruler," nevertheless shows him to be every inch a king...