![]() I did enjoy reacquainting myself with Jeannette RANKIN, but the pleasure pretty much started and ended there. Also, she didn't "get" the theme either-this is telling. I don't normally read the other blogs, but since my friend Rachel writes for NYT's own "Wordplay" blog on Monday, I thought I'd jump over there and at least make sure I wasn't missing anything. what is this? I pity the Monday-level puzzles that were rejected to make room for this one. unusual? Strange? It seems so ordinary, so banal, that I can't imagine anyone's ever thinking it would amount to theme material, and I really Really can't imagine an editor's thinking "yes! I get a hundred submissions a week but this! This is the one." What in the world is happening? Maybe, maybe if there had been a revealer, some snappy concept, something that would make the repeated letter strings make any kind of sense, then the concept would've been tolerable-good revealers often turn seemingly unremarkable answers into a really tight and interesting set. ![]() In each case, there are just three random letters. the repeated three-letter strings don't make words, or sounds, or. If the full extent of the theme is simply "the first three letters of each answer repeat themselves within the answer," then I haven't seen a theme so startlingly unworthy of publication in a long, long time. I simply have no idea what the theme is supposed to be. It's not uncommon for me to find the Monday puzzle a little dull, or a little corny, but it is nearly unheard of for me to find it completely thematically inscrutable. She championed a multitude of diverse women's rights and civil rights causes throughout a career that spanned more than six decades. While in Congress, she introduced legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting unrestricted voting rights to women nationwide. In 1941, she was the only member of Congress to vote against the declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor.Ī suffragist during the Progressive Era, Rankin organized and lobbied for legislation enfranchising women in several states including Montana, New York, and North Dakota. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members who opposed the declaration of war on Germany in 1917. military intervention in the two World Wars. ![]() ![]() As of 2022, Rankin is still the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.Įach of Rankin's Congressional terms coincided with initiation of U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. The vegetation was dying back with the coming of autumn, but enough fleecevine and hydras bane was left to occasionally give Schultz the feeling he was back in the Mekong Delta.įor there in the form of madness, of scales just beneath her breasts, and the wild untamed beauty of Hala, grew the tentacles of medusa, and the long, jagged teeth of the hydra.Jeannette Pickering Rankin (J– May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. Hydra The beast of Hera, daughter of the serpent-goddess Echidna, guarded the entrance to the underworld at Lerna. Though interesting to the animal behaviorist and xenobiologist, Losels, Wyverns, Hydrae, and the Rodents of Unusual Size, et cetera ad nauseam, were all non-sentient. Hence my fury when Andromeda, herself unhinged by wrath, tore open the chest-lid just off Hydra and threw them to the fish. The marble balustrade on the terrace, the glass wall producing a sunset, the ship painting from Hydra still unhung in a corner. Louis XIII and author of the celebrated book The Morbific Hydra Exterminated by the Chemical Hercules.Ĭheapside, trying to keep tabs on the proliferating, the pullulating hydra of Clinch money.įulla, meanwhile, had created a zombified rhino and a small, hissing hydra. It is better to let the other Hydra Heads believe that Mance is still at large, rather than have them elect two more to replace him.Ĭonsidering the unique methods used by Hydra Heads, as displayed by Mance, Medor and Casler, The Shadow was again expecting something startling or novel. Then Selbert was dashing for the corner with Mance behind him, but all the while, the rugged Hydra Head was shooting back, hoping to nail The Shadow in the doorway.īut there was something that all Hydra Heads, Mance included, could remember, along with those workers who termed themselves Eyes, Ears, and Teeth. This explained why Mance, the Hydra Head, had ordered the holocaust so arranged that fugitives would be cut off from all exits except the front. Unlike hydra, they have clearly defined head and tail ends, and a much more elaborate behavioural repertoire.
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