Word: pollux
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...village riot. In the next election it was all too possible that a revolt might swing the tide to Fiorello Laguardia, the Fusionist contender. If this occurred, the Tammany wigwam was likely to do a sizeable amount of starving in the ensuing months. It is a saying which Pollux is fond of repeating, "that necessity is the mother of invention." And so it proved to be. Before another moon had passed Sachems Flynn and Curry had acted, Holy Joe McKee was designated to enter the campaign as a third major candidate, and the Wigwam became its cheery old self, confident...
...illuminate gently pat the heads of direct, self possessed, and mature artists and curl their lips at homespun, so long must we be judged in the world as a literary cocktail compounded of six parts young intensity and four parts fragile aniiquarianism. Or so Castor tells me. POLLUX...