Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story of the 1924 expedition which attempted to reach the top of Mt. Everest, "The Goddess of the World", will be told at the Union Tomorrow night by Capt. J. B. Noel, the official photographer of the expedition...
...accomplished, he being three, she five. François de Valois shy, timid, bilious weakling, married her at Notre Dame when she was 16. Brantôme says she was more beautiful than a goddess. Ronsard du Bellay and De Maisonfleur wrote poems for her, over which she wept. She wore blue velvet, embroidered with silver lilies. A year later François was King of France, and Mary's devoted slave; after a reign of 16 months she was a widow...
...Western Europe, the solemnization of the Resurrection early merged with the Teutonic spring festival in honor of Eostre, goddess of spring...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...
...Milwaukee, a Lutheran divine, the Rev. Dr. Andreas Bard, rose to his feet before the Luther League of America, suggested that the statue of the goddess Liberty which stands at the gate of New York harbor should be replaced by one of Jesus Christ...