Word: tallow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...proverbial dog with tallow legs being pursued through the nether regions by an asbestos cat is in a better case than the fugitive hope that the Soviet will not give further cause for complaint...
...Ohio, as populous as Schenectady, has its own Parliament (Althing),* its own Premier, its own Lutheran Bishop. Fifty flourishing savings banks, universal old age pensions and the University of Reykjavik attest the prosperity of Icelanders who export 58,000,000 kroner worth of fish, horses, sheep, hides, oils, tallow, and expend only 50,000,000 kroner annually on imports...
Painter Scott told stories about the institution's first "undergraduate body" of 40 students; how there was no room for them at the college to study, but only to recite; how they went to their classrooms, which were lit by tallow dips, bearing pieces of wood picked up on the way to put in the stoves; how they went "downtown" to beer parlors of an evening, until the University president (of a staff of three), John W. Johnson,* caught them and made a "fine talk" in class...
...tribe of Eskimos gathered at Karnah, far North on the coast of Greenland. Fur clad, tallow-faced, they squatted in a ring. Before them all, the previously respected Eskimo Kudlooktoo confessed himself a murderer...
...adopted him, a pretty, tallow-colored stripling, in 1909. She had him educated privately in England and at the Sorbonne in France. Then she took him out among the Theosophists. At Adyar, India, on December 28th, 1925, he was lecturing to a very large audience under the Banyan Tree. He was concluding his lecture by speaking of the World Teacher, with the words, "He comes to those who want, who desire, who long, and-" a contraction passed over his body and a voice of penetrating sweetness rang through his lips. . . . "I come to those who want sympathy, who want happiness...