Word: goddesses
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...President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
...Abraham, forward to Christ. Laban, unlucky until Jacob came to live with him, had sought to propitiate the gods by burying alive his infant son in the foundations of his house. When Joseph is born, Jacob prophesies about him as if he were a Messiah, his mother a virgin-goddess...
Edwina Booth who thrilled cinemaddicts of 1931 as the blonde goddess of Trader Horn reemerged in last week's news in strange contrast to the vigorous, vibrant creature the public remembered on the screen. She has been bedridden and confined to a dark room for two years, the result, she claims, of some tropical disease which she contracted while producing the picture in Africa. Would the courts, she pleaded, compel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Trader Horn's producers, to give her $1,000,000 in a hurry so that she could get treatment in the School of Hygiene...
...Trader Horn company sailed for Africa with only two other women in the party, the wife of Harry Carey (Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
...nurse went first to the Koreiden shrine, dedicated to the spirits of the 123 Emperors of Japan who ruled before Emperor Hirohito; then to the Shinden, where they honored the "So myriad" deities of Shintoism; finally to the Kashikodokoro, the shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of the imperial family...