PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation.

According to the most trustworthy statistics the number of adult Dullards in the United States is but little short of thirty millions, including the statisticians.

PRESBYTERIAN, n. One who holds the conviction that the government authorities of the Church should be called presbyters.

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

REAR, n. In American military matters, that exposed part of the army that is nearest to Congress.