Word: headless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1876. Psyttaleia's headless Ceres has occupied a niche over the main entrance of the Academy's later building at Broad and Cherry Streets. To the sculptor who hewed and chiseled her broad figure in the time of Praxiteles, she represented not Roman Ceres but Greek Demeter, "earth mother," goddess of fertility, mother of Persephone whom Pluto carried off to the underworld. One of the few pieces of ancient Greek sculpture which have been left outdoors since discovery, Ceres has been getting blacker every year in Philadelphia's smoky air, has finally begun to crumble...
...past there have been major and minor committees and other disjointed, headless student athletic bodies with vaguely specified meetings and duties. Nobody could be quite sure just what or how much it really mattered what the students thought. Now the machinery is in its proper place. The undergraduate must set it in motion and keep it going. The H.A.A. belongs to him, and he will most certainly be heard when he communicates his wishes and desires to the new, powerful centralized student committee...
...campaigns of '32 and '36 would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly it worked with the President and how it thought of his precious power...
...yearly "Conventions" with men in uniforms bowling down Main Street, slapping each other on the back, singing rowdy songs, drunk at the intersection trying to direct traffic with a cardboard whistle. Later, war movies, R. O. T. C. parades, University Gothic towers with memorial plaques, billboards plastered with legless, headless portraits labeled "The Horror of It." June 1935 at last and graduation, and even then commencement speakers shouting "Stand up for peace!" while newspapers bellowed "Be prepared...
With his usual audacity, Mr. Hoeing held it off with a stick until two Yard cops helped him down the amazed animal. Leaving it dead and headless, he retired to Holworthy, the proud possessor of the bloody token of his prowess...