ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

The god of the world's leading religion.

PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.

DEGRADATION, n. One of the stages of moral and social progress from private station to political preferment.

QUORUM, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the U.S. Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House.

A statesman who shakes the fruit trees of his neighbors - to dislodge the worms.

PIE, n. An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.