Word: tallow
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked above the nine yellow tapers of wax or paraffin. (Candle tallow is generally forbidden to Jews because it might come from a ritually unclean beast...
...prejudiced, for he was not genial. No ruddy jester was he, with a nervous eyelid and a midwifian ribaldry to cheer the anxious parent in her distress. Far from it. William J. was a spot that way, but Charles was a doleful fellow, "with a face pulled out of tallow." That was a long time ago. Last year, at the Democratic Convention in Manhattan, Charles Horace Mayo was loudly mentioned (though his name was never put in nomination) as a candidate both for the Presidency and the Vice Presidency of the U. S.-an honor as extraordinary as it would...
...portico of St. Peter's and the obelisk in St. Peter's Square, which Caligula brought from Egypt, were illuminated for the first time since 1870, when the Papacy was deprived of its temporal power. The illumination was done not with electricity but with thousands of tallow torches and candles, many of which were encased in saucer-shaped lanterns, giving the impression of a blazing building. It took 300 men a fortnight to prepare the pyro display. Many thousands of frantic people cheered in polyglot tongue: "Long live the Pope!" "Vivet la Sainte...
...impregnable iron door and freeze the bell full of water--chiefly because it is no longer necessary to do this in order to avoid Chapel. But if it ever was desirable or necessary to arise at seven o'clock, that time like the days of one-horse shays and tallow candles, has fled. Pity the dexterous but unfortunate bellringer forever doomed to face the world while all of Harvard College lies sleeping...
...bodies of the whales were removed to the Tallow Works in Peabody where the bones were stripped and prepared for exhibition. The arrangements were made by Dr. G. M. Allen of the Department of Zoology...