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=CAB= Affair for a drive.

=CABBY= Driver for a fare.

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=CACHINNATION= The hysterical "Ha-Ha." Syn. for Carrie Nation.

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=CADDIE= A small boy, employed at a liberal stipend to lose balls for others and find them for himself.

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=CAFE= A place where the public pays the proprietor for the privilege of tipping the waiters for something to eat.

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=CAJOLE= v. t., From Grk. kalos, beautiful, and Eng. jolly, to jolly beautifully.

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=CALCIUM= An earthly light that brightens even the stars.

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=CANNIBAL= A heathen hobo who never works, but lives on other people.

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=CAPTIVATE= From Lat. caput, head, and Eng. vacate, or empty,--to empty the head. Note, Women who have captivated men.

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=CAPE= A neck in the sea.

=CAPER= A foot in the air.

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=CARNEGIE-ITIS= A mania for burning money. Contracted in a Pennsylvania blast furnace, developed in a Scotch castle and now epidemic in American public libraries.

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=CART= v. t., To take off.

=CARTOON= The take-off.

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=CAULIFLOWER= A Cabbage with a college education.

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=CAVALRY= That arm of the military service that engages in the real hoss-tilities.

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=CEMETERY= The one place where princes and paupers, porters and presidents are finally on the dead level.

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=CHAMPAGNE= The stuff that makes the world go round.

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=CHAIR= Four-legged aid to the injured.

=CHARITY= Forehanded aid to the indigent.

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=CHAUFFEUR= A man who is smart enough to operate an automobile, but clever enough not to own one.

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=CHRISTIAN= A member of any orthodox church.

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=CHRISTMAS= A widely observed holiday on which the past nor the future is of so much interest as the present.

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=CHUMP= Any one whose opinion differs radically from ours.

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=CIGARETTE= A weed whose smoke, some say, should never be inhaled, and still more insist should never be exhaled.

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=CINDER= One of the first things to catch your eye in travelling.

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=CIVILIZATION= An upward growth or tendency that has enabled mankind to develop the college yell from what was once only a feeble war-whoop.

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=COLLECTOR= A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.

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=COLLEGE= From Fr. colle, pasted or stuck, and etude, study. A place where everyone is stuck on study. (?)

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=COLONEL= A male resident of Kentucky.

See =KERNEL=.

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=COMPLIMENT= v. t., From Eng. con,--hot air, and Lat. pleo, to fill. Hence, to fill with hot air.

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=COMPLEXION= Color for the face. From Eng. complex, difficult, and shun, to avoid. To avoid difficulty, buy it of the druggist.

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=COMMENDATION= From Eng. con, a josh, and mend, to fix up. Hence, a fixed-up josh.

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=CONDUCTOR= From Eng. coin, and Lat. duco, to command. One who commands the coin.

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=CONSCIENCE= The fear of being found out.

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=COOK= A charitable institution, providing food and shelter for Policemen.

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=CORPS= A big bunch of fighters. (Dist. bet. cores found in apples and corps found in arms).

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=CORSET= From Fr. corps, shape, and sec, rough. Rough on the shape.

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=COSMETIC= A new face-maker. From Grk. kosmos, order, and Eng. medic, or doctor,--ordered by the doctor. (See Complexion.)

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=COT= A snooze for one.

=COTILLON= A dance for eight.

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=CREDIT= Something for nothing.

=CREDITOR= Something with nothing.

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=CREDULITY= A feminine virtue and a masculine vice.

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=CREMATION= A means of disposing of the dead likely to become very popular, especially with women who are so fond of having the last retort.

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=CRITIC= A wet blanket that soaks everything it touches.

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=CROOK= One who exceeds the speed limit in Law & Order Ave. A Misfit in the Straight and Narrow Way.

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=CROW= A bird that never complains without caws.

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=CULTURE= A degree of mental development that produces tailor-made women, fantastically-sheared poodles and dock tailed horses.

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=CUPID= A driver of sharp darts.

=CUPIDITY= A driver of sharp deals.

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=CYNIC= A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

All work and no play makes Jack A Dead One. _

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