Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time a fearsome place, for a Democratic speech on the tariff. It was in Louisville, in the columns of his Courier-Journal, that the late Col. Henry Watterson (1842-1921) used to thunder about the tariff. It was Col. Watterson who called the Democratic party "the star-eyed goddess of tariff reform" and who in 1884 coined the oldtime phrase, "A tariff for revenue only," a phrase repeated in national Democratic platforms as late as 1920. Nominee Smith had the double problem of breaking away from the revenue-only tradition and of embracing the historically Republican principle of protection...
...bathroom tiles of telephone romances next to ice-box detective stories--until infidels become dizzy. The hierarchy particularly glories in converts to the cohorts of the faithful who worship Advertisa, through the medium of cigarettes. Here Bill Tilden. Charlie Paddock, Amelia Earhart proclaim their remunerative devotion to the goddess (though Amelia did send her $10,000 reward to Byrd for his Antartic expedition). Soon Elnatein will be sold for "Not a cough in a carload"; and James Joyce's books, because "They are mild--yet they satisfy." Morning, evening, all day long chant the priests "Advertisa is great. Advertisa...
...spirits of 123 dead emperors were watching, and the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-0-Makimi listened to the young Prince as he spoke the name of his bride. Then Prince and bride exchanged the San-san-kudo, the "three times three," each drinking three times of saké (rice wine) from each of three divine cups. Then they spoke to the ancestors, and the marriage was complete...
Engaged. Alex J. Ettl, Manhattan sculptor, who designed the Goddess of Agriculture for the Philadelphia Sesqui-Centennial Exposition; to Dorothy Buck, who posed for it, and who is the daughter of a famed farmer, ex-Senator Clarence Frank Buck of Illinois...
...goddess is exalted with the maddest and most foolish hymns to become a symbol of national power. . . . Meanwhile, true virtues . . . are forgotten...