Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

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

As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone enough to make him a more competent fool than he would have been without it.

PRISON, n. A place of punishments and rewards. The poet assures us that - stone walls do not a prison make.

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

FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.

MINISTER, n. An agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy, an officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his sovereign's hostility.