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Hirohito was not crowned. Instead, upon his father's death in 1926 he assumed protection of Japan's three Sacred Treasures: The Sword which commands "Be Brave!" The Jewel which says "Enlighten thyself!" and the Most Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Omikami which enjoins "Know thyself...
...York to house circuses, horse shows, prize fights, dog shows, a beer garden and cabaret, he found it suitable to clap a copy of Seville's Giraldo Tower on one side and then get his good friend Augustus St. Gaudens to set a 13-ft. nude Greek goddess tiptoe on the Moorish-Gothic-Renaissance cathedral belfry. Beyond its inappropriateness, the Garden tower was a lovely thing and New York cherished her Diana. For almost 40 years newspaper poets, after-dinner speakers, prize fighters, cab drivers, club members waxed sentimental about her. William Sydney ("O. Henry") Porter wrote...
...dying of heart disease, he put on many a magic show to please the child. Afterwards, when his uncle was lying on his deathbed, he stole the magic paraphernalia, put on a show of his own at the village inn. Only the quick wit of his goddess, Eva Veeders, who could turn cartwheels in & out of rooms without brushing the doorposts, saved him from disgrace...
...Eskimos have many tabus. They believe in spirits, in a cold, horrible Hell and a Heaven at the bottom of the sea, ruled over by the Great Goddess Nuliayok. The Eskimo language is difficult. How did Monsignor Turquetil, an Oblate Father journeying from France to Canada in 1900 at the age of 24?how did he shepherd 7,000 scattered souls during his 30 icy years? How gain entry to the Eskimo hut, be welcomed with "Qujangnamik...
...even the night wind that moans about the aging author "imprisoned . . . in a small black and silver room between a typewriter and an unabridged dictionary" can scare him over to Aesred, the goddess of conformity. Still, "this pseudolyric nonsense . . . has become not quite the sort of nonsense to be regarded seriously by a responsible householder who lives in a common-sense world." Aging, Responsible-Householder Cabell finds that he must, though he cannot, put his shining people out of mind...