REPORTER, n. A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.
Ambrose BierceCRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.
Ambrose BierceAlliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
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