Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cawnpore, India, a fanatic Hindu carpenter prostrated himself at the feet of the Goddess of the Kali Temple, cut off his tongue, offered it in exchange for wisdom...
...wife is the goddess of Hindu civilization, the mother is its pivot, and the grandmother is the ruler of the home." Author Yeats-Brown went wherever he could find holy men. dervishes, religious teachers. In Allahabad he watched the parade of 1,000 stark naked followers of Siva...
Carefully taken apart, the Goddess of Liberty was packed in 214 enormous crates, consigned to the steam-and-sail gunboat Isère for shipment to the U. S. In charge of the shipment was a 19-year-old French lieutenant, Rodolphe Victor de Drambour. No hatches on the little ship were big enough for the enormous crates. He cut open the side of the ship, pushed the dissected goddess straight into the hold. Throughout a 72-hour storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly...
George, the village doctor, she was a goddess. Mary went to stay with George's family, but she visited Sparkenbroke on the sly. In time's nick Sparkenbroke packed up and left for Italy, and Mary married George. Everyone but the reader thought her temptations were over...
...doxy she leaves few shreds. Nelson was "ignorant of everything save his chosen profession, uneducated save in the school of war, scarcely a gentleman, and vulgar-souled . . ." but "... a brilliant air of being above his fellows, a flash of some genius and heroism." To Nelson, Emma was a goddess: "He would never check her vulgarity, wince at her noisy voice, complain of her garish clothes, for he would never notice these defects. To him she was perfect; they were as easy in each other's company as the seaman after a long voyage was easy with the fat doxy...