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...liked to invite friends early to a party to help him "scent the flowers." He was happiest "when the lamps of the town are lit," and held forth at Soho cafes, bantering with other wits of the day. "Nero," he said once, "set Christians on fire like large tallow candles"; then he added wickedly that this was "the only light Christians were ever known to give...
...greatest beauty aid of all-soap -was an invention of the barbarian Gauls, who made it from goat's tallow and beech ashes. Though the Greeks and Romans praised cleanliness, neither used soap. As late as 1853, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone condemned soap as "most injurious both to the comfort and health of the people." Fortunately, some prejudices come out in the wash...
Ayub himself did not seem too comfortable as the five-day tour wore on. At Islamabad, where Pakistan is building a new capital, Liu planted a Chinese tallow tree, declaring, "We hope that it grows and flourishes like the friendship between Pakistan and China." Asked Ayub, in his clipped Sandhurst English: "It becomes a big tree, does it?" And at a banquet where Liu unexpectedly offered not only a toast but also a prepared text for the press, the Pakistani President-more likely in reference to the meal than the occasion-intoned coolly, "I hope you have...
Though his father was never much of a moneymaker, the family lived comfortably in a two-bedroom white house with green shutters. At 14, a "thin, scrawny, tallow-faced boy," as his father recalls him, Bill went to work sacking groceries at the A. & P. for 75? an hour, still found time to write for Marshall High School's newspaper The Parrot (whose most famous staffer was Lady Bird Johnson), serve as a cheerleader and bandsman, play the role of the parson in his senior class play One Foot in Heaven, and rack up a scholastic average...
...party was named at a meeting of 53 men in a small wooden schoolhouse on the Ripon College campus on March 20, 1854. They assembled on a cold night, held their discussion by the light of tallow candles. "We went into the little meeting Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats," one of their leaders, Alvan E. Bovay, later recalled. "We came out Republicans...