Males hoping for acceptance must undergo a perilous rite de passage.

Now Champou's partner was the Court barber, and by the use of a peculiar hair oil which the two of them had concocted, they soon managed to balden the pates of all the male aristocracy of the place.

Navigators, astronomers, scientists, mathematicians, and others who were involved in a great deal of calculating were rather readily converted to the algorist inclination.

He doesn't realise how hurtful his offhand remarks can be.