The Foolish Dictionary Part 27
=WAR= A wholesale means of making heroes which, if planned in a small way, would produce only murderers.
=WATER= A thin substance applied to stocks with which to soak buyers.
=WEDDING= A trade in which the bride is generally given away, and the groom is often sold.
=WEEDS= Found in gardens and widows. For removing easily, marry the widow.
=WICKEDNESS= A myth invented by good people to account for the singular attractiveness of others.
=WIDOW= The wife of a golfer during the open season, unless she golfs, too. In that event the children are golf orphans.
=WHISKY= Trouble put up in liquid form.
=WIND= An aerial phenomenon, superinduced by an ephemeral agitation of the nebular strata, whereby air, (hot or cold), impelled into transitory activity, generates a prolonged pa.s.sage through s.p.a.ce, owing to certain occult ethereal stimuli, and results in zephyrs, breezes, blows, blow-outs, blizzards, gales, simoons, hurricanes, tornadoes or typhoons.
Barred from Kansas Cyclone-cellars but frequently blended with Chicago tongue--canned or conversational.
=WOMAN= An aspiring creature whose political sphere is still slightly flattened at the polls.
=WORD= Something you must keep after giving it to another.
=WORRY= A state of mind that leads some persons to fear, every time the tide goes out, that it wont come in again.
=WRINKLES= A merchants trade-marks.
Its the first straw hat which shows how the wind blows.
X Y Z
A Ride goeth before a Fall.-- See Automobile, Bucking Broncho, Bicycle, Air-Ship, Patrol-Wagon, Rail, and Go-Cart.
=X RAYS=
[Ill.u.s.tration]
Ten dollars from a friend.
=YARN= An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.
=YAWL= Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never a cat-boat.
=YAWNS= The air-breaks on a sleeper.
=YEAR= A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the other 40 are Lent.
=YELLOW FEVER= A pa.s.sion for reading the Hearst newspapers.
=YOLK= The legacy of the hen and the burden of its lay.
=YOKE= The inheritance of the hen-pecked and the burden of the married.
=YULE-LOG= A Christmas protege of the grate, too young to smoke, too tough to burn and too green to warm up to anybody.