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Author Stribling, sometimes called the Sinclair Lewis of the South, began his writing career with stories for Sunday-school publications. He passed on to plotty melodramas for paper-pulp magazines, rose to heights in Birthright and Teef-tallow. Strange Moon drops back to the pulp level. Possibly it is a resurrection from his serial days. Or perhaps it just reflects Author Stribling's habit of writing in a reclining position...
Deadshots who annually arrive at Bisley station with their gun cases, their wind gauges, their range finders, telescopes and tallow candles (for blackening front sights) never notice Bisley village, never notice Bisley church, and they have positively ignored Dr. John Gwyon, rector of Bisley Church for 33 years...
Skylights, matches and tallow candles...
...first experiments were not conclusive, but they were promising; working for the U. S. Public Health Service in a Harvard laboratory at Boston, Dr. Joseph William Schereschewsky rubbed tallow on the legs of mice until experimental cancer developed. To those mice he applied high frequency electrical currents and in 30 mice the cancerous growths subsided. Other mice the current killed, Dr. Schereschewsky thinks, because he did not know the curative current frequency. But he is not certain. There may be other factors...
...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...