diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

MAMMON, n. The god of the world's leading religion. The chief temple is in the holy city of New York.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.

SACERDOTALIST, n. One who holds the belief that a clergyman is a priest. Denial of this momentous doctrine is the hardest challenge that is now flung into the teeth of the Episcopalian church by the Neo-Dictionarians.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.