Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hillsides by battle, or sticking out their tongues and making faces while they dance. Best shot: reflection in water of the great pattern of trees in which the tribe clings, swinging as they "sing a good-bye song for tribesmen going away. Venus (United Artists ). No poet's goddess of pearl rising from the dark blue of an Aegean wave is Constance Talmadge, but a distracted flippant Venus left over from a past, an extravagantly rococo period of the cinema. Action of this silent picture hinges on a report, visibly confirmed, that Miss Talmadge has entertained a yachting party...
...faculty, but the process is unduly painful. To sit at the feet of wisdom and imbibe a true love of the English language necessitates inspiring instructors, and in English A1, the inspiring quality of the instructor is more than likely to be determined by the whims of the fickle Goddess of Fate. Given a poor instructor, any natural inclinations towards the study of English are likely to be smothered under the soporific influence of the teachings of the mediocre mind, as many who have received their first and last college instruction in English in this course will ruefully testify...
...chief of the sacred treasures of Japan is the mirror which contains the spirit of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu, ancestress of H. I. M. The Emperor of Japan. Of such superlative sanctity is Amaterasu's mirror that for centuries no human eye has ever actually seen it. Rumored to be a round plate of polished metal, it rests in an elaborate tabernacle, shrouded in a cover of white brocade. When the brocade wears out a new cover is slipped over the old-no priest would dare peek...
...Mikami, informing her that her new home was ready. Then the procession formed to march the 350 yards from the old temple to the new. First came more torch bearers in archaic costumes, then warriors with bows, spears, shields, others with gifts of jewels and robes for the Sun Goddess. Then came the Sacred Mirror herself, her tabernacle close curtained, borne on the shoulders of white-robed priests. Humbly at the tail of the procession, blinking in the acrid smoke of the pine torches, walked the Prime Minister of Japan and his Ministers...
...dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine, temple of all the ancestors of the Imperial family, and the Shinden, dedicated to all the "80 myriad" gods of the Shinto religion...