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...Western Europe, the solemnization of the Resurrection early merged with the Teutonic spring festival in honor of Eostre, goddess of spring...
This champion of the unprized causes builds like his Fifteenth Century model a policy for political progress on the firm conviction that the voice of the people is but the echo of those who lead them. In short, he caricatures democracy by giving the face of that goddess a Roman nose and by handing her a club, labeled "bunkum". And to those who delight in the raucous ribaldry of Mr. Mencken, and even to those who parade the pageant of their political pessimism a with perennial precision, these words seem the utterances of an oracle. Yet an oracle can have...
...Milwaukee, a Lutheran divine, the Rev. Dr. Andreas Bard, rose to his feet before the Luther League of America, suggested that the statue of the goddess Liberty which stands at the gate of New York harbor should be replaced by one of Jesus Christ...
...Police Force that the law prohibiting improper representation of the National Flag had been violated. They also found, on an inner page, a reproduction of a Manet nude, brazenly doctored to show a winking eye and a tipping wine glass. The title of this picture was given as The Goddess of Liberty; the artist, "Mr. Hotmama"; the caption, "If this be treason, make the most of it." The Boston Police Force did make the most of it. For the first time in The Lampoon's 40 years, it was ordered off the Boston newsstands by Law. Theretofore, its occasional...
...come, thou goddess fair and free...