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...patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with as little prospect of success." Her family's savory reputation left her little choice of a career. Her mother was the town scandal, and a boom had scraped her no-account father off his boat into the harbor of Newport and eternity. So Betty trafficked...
...cher, aged 75, famed opera singer, was discovered "living crippled, bed-ridden and penniless at a small inn near Aachen." Once she was a student under the great Wagner, once she thrilled thousands of German opera-goers-so much so that they were accused of making a goddess of her. Once Frau Rosa Luxemburg ruled the red roost at Communist headquarters in Berlin. She was killed in 1919. Frau Klara Zetkin succeeded her, but Klara became old, abdicated her power, went to Russia, her "spiritual home." The new leader is Frau Ruth Fischer, Vienna Jewess, onetime confidante of Bela...
...Hail, goddess Rome! Hail to you and your sons, who are always ready to fight and die for you and your glory...
...champion pugilist interested in Goddess Diana...
...high priestess of Terpsichore," ecstatically crooned the Washington Post, "erected a shrine to the goddess of her choice in the New National Theatre here, and enacted a stirring program of beautiful dances, as varying in moods and caprices as the April day of thunder, lightning, snow and hail outside the theatre walls...