Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own.

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

ZEUS /n./ The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog.

REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.