r 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.

D

Out of fight, out of coin.--_The Pugilist's Plaint_.

=DABBLE= v. t., To play in water.

=DABBLE IN STOCKS=--Same thing.

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=DACHSHUND= A low-down dog.

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=DANCE= A brisk, physical exercise, invented by St. Vitus.

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=DATES= A fruit commonly plucked from the Family Tree and spread
on the leaves of history. (Dist. bet. Dates and Peaches, which
are often associated).

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=DEAD= Without life. See Boston.

=DEADER= Pompeii.

=DEADEST= Philadelphia.

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=DEADBEAT= One who makes a soft living by sponging it.

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=DEBT= A big word beginning with Owe, which grows bigger the more
it is contracted.

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=DEE-LIGHTED=

[Illustration]

An Oyster Bay localism, derived from delighted.

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(Patent and Dramatic rights to this word are, until March 4,
1905, the exclusive property of T. Roosevelt, Esq., Subsequent
editions of The Foolish Dictionary will define t