Word: pollux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...join the army. This shift in position was loudly applauded by the Hearst editorial writers as a sensible adjustment to circumstance; none the less, the Professor would like to have it forgotten before he speaks again for strike or pacifism. Even in a relativist, this must be reckoned inconsistency. POLLUX...
...Pollux confided to me that he was nothing short of alarmed at the imminence of a third Battle of the Century. What, he asked, if Billy Sunday, following the example of Aimee Semple Macpherson Hutton who plans to team up with the great Mrs. Costello, should offer a partnership to Machine-Gun Kelly, another famous humanitarian? And what if their paths should cross, what if the Kelly-Sunday team should muscle in on legitimate Costello-Macpherson territory? When they meet in evangelistic competition are life-lines thrown out, or pineapples? Pretty questions, Pollux, I admit, and ones fraught with considerable...
...lacking as we must evidence of any positive nature, there seems more point to the view that von Hindenburg's collapse has been gradual, and is not yet consummate. There is certainly more hope in this view for the future of Europe and of the world. POLLUX...
Puzzled as were Pollux and I to see that Hitler's Germany has gone the Golden-Rule-Day Society twelve better by decreeing a national monthly fast day, the household savings of which are to feed the local starving Armenians, we were even more struck by the incongruity of a message sent down by the Soviet ballooners to their listening fans on the ground. Having attained the height of 11.8 miles above the earth, they radioed: "We are doing well and send our best wishes." For a very happy Stratostat Year? CASTOR...
...Pollux last night chuckling softly over a newspaper item which reported Bishop Manning's refusal to allow the Lutherans to use the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for a great Protestant celebration commemorating Martin Luther. Pollux was amused to recollect the good Bishop's fund-raising slogan when building the Cathedral: "A House of prayer for all people." The invisible amendment which Pollux missed seems to have read: "Except for non-Episcopalians and all those bearing the name Judge Ben Lindsey...