Cat: a soft indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

GNOSTICS, n. A sect of philosophers who tried to engineer a fusion between the early Christians and the Platonists. The former would not go into the caucus and the combination failed, greatly to the chagrin of the fusion managers.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.

Aristocrats: n. fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.