ION= Is marriage a failure?

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=QUEUE= The only Mongolian line connecting America and China.

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=QUORUM= A clumsy individual, all Ayes and Noes, who is seldom on
hand when needed.

Faint heart never won fair lady--but a full purse can always pull
the trick.

R

Man proposes, then woman imposes.

=RABBIT= A small rodent, very similar to a hare, which feeds on
grass and burrows in the earth. =WELSH RABBIT= More like a
string, thrives on cheese and burrows in the stomach.

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=RACE-TRACK= An interesting locality, where pools are bought and
sold in books and the heat never interferes with the search
for the Pole.

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=RADIUM= A radiant radiator, redolent of ranging radial rays of
radio-activity, raised to radical rates and regarded as a
ruthless rake-off in the reign of riches within the arrayed
radius of a raging, raving and raided race.

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=RAG-TIME= Music pulled into many pieces--the invention of a
flannel-mouth to which many have cottoned.

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=RAPID TRANSIT= A municipal myth, circulated for the amusement of
the long suffering--and slow moving--public.

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=REFORM= In general, a periodic epidemic, starting with marked
heat, followed by a high fever, and accompanied by a flow of
ink in the newspapers, a discharge of words from the face and
a rush of blood to the polls, leaving the victim a chronic
invalid until the next campaign. In New York, reform has been
confined to a Low attempt at government.

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=REFORMER= One who, when he smells a rat, is eager to let the cat
out of the bag.

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=REGISTER=

[Illustration]

The only autograph album which it costs you money to write in.

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=REGRETS= An excuse for non-attendance at a social function.
Occasionally, an expression of sorrow; usually, a paean of
praise at deliverance from evil.

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=RELATIONS= A tedious pack of people who haven't the remotest
knowledge