Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franklin Roosevelt pays tribute to his personal charm and graciousness. When in Hawaii last summer he drove to the brink of Kilauea. Just as barefoot natives have done from time immemorial, he tossed into the inactive volcano a handful of red ohelo berries, traditional offering made to propitiate Pele, goddess of volcanoes. For six weeks Pele did nothing about it. Suddenly last week Kilauea belched forth a cloud of smoke, vomited millions of tons of molten lava. Natives concluded these were signs that Pele, too, had succumbed to Franklin Roosevelt's charm...
Long lines of green monsters with swollen heads symbolized the Brain Trust. They were dropping gold into troughs at which silk-hatted pigs were feeding. At the lower left Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was strangling the Goddess Ceres. Behind him a tax collector was removing a citizen's shirt. In the centre sat Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau?a clown juggling money with a lap full of gold bricks. General Hugh S. Johnson was jumping irascibly on the roped figure of Industry. Also to be seen were Madam Secretary Perkins, Postmaster General Farley, Uncle Sam on a cross, dying cattle...
...President debarked, was met by a great brown & yellow crowd which knew little of the U. S. custom of cheering a great man. A drive through Hawaii National Park brought Visitor Roosevelt to the crater of Kilauea. There he tossed in a bunch of ohelo berries to appease Pele, goddess of volcanoes...
...Asmar, 50 mi. northeast of Bagdad, other Oriental Institute diggers turned up stone statues of the "Lord of Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...
Algeria. A group of French diggers directed by the Rev. Father Lapeyre this summer probed the temple of Tanit, on the site of ancient Carthage. Virgin Queen of the moon and heavens. Tanit was the goddess who was elsewhere known as Artemis, Astarte, Ashtoreth, Demeter, Diana. The Carthaginian Tanit was, according to Father Lapeyre's report last week, a lover of child sacrifice. Urns were unearthed containing the charred bones of children as old as 12, as young as a few months. Animal bones found in other receptacles led expedition members to guess that lambs, pigs, kids had been...