REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative and the refusal feminine. The last is called by some casuists the refusal assentive.

COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.

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

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.

Life - a spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.