Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Commenting on the Temple of the goddess Astarte, found in his excavations, he said that this was a building containing four columns and an altar for offerings, at the foot of which a Hittite battle ax and a board of jewels, also small seals inscribed with familiar Hittile hieroglyphs, had been found. The discoveries, which were made last autumn, also include the actual remains of sacrificed animals...
...seem to recall, however, that while "major" or "maior" is the comparative, "magnus" is the positive, as "opus magnus" and not "opus maius." Unless there be some trick reference here to Maia, the goddess or month...
...would have attracted the thunderous applause with which the "Publix" audience greets atrocious slapstick. Miss Murray must be admired, most of all, because she refused to descend to the level of her audience. For the theatregoer who storms the box office to see his or her cinematic god or goddess in person, however, the notions that the movie star should play the sedulous ape on the stage and chameleon-like run through their past repertory of screen characterization, is one of the pseudodoxia epidemica which die hard...
...Came to America to Play Zakuri in The Darling of the Gods with Blanche Bates in 1902; with Mrs. Fiske in Becky Sharp, Hedda Gabler, etc.; Disraeli in Disraeli, 1911-15; the Rajah in The Green Goddess, 1921; Sylvanus Heythorp in Old English...
...back to the discovery in 1852 that "Peak XV," 29145 feet, was the highest mountain in the world, Captain Noel tells of the disguised surveyors who spent years in the monasteries of old Nepal and Tibet gathering bit by bit accurate information as to the exact surroundings of the "Goddess Mother of the World". In 1914 Noel made an attempt to see the mountain but his disguise failed and he was stopped by the Tibetan soldiers, over forty miles from his goal...