r the
singular attractiveness of others.

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=WIDOW= The wife of a golfer during the open season, unless she
golfs, too. In that event the children are golf orphans.

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=WHISKY= Trouble put up in liquid form.

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=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
passage through space, 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.

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=WOMAN= An aspiring creature whose political sphere is still
slightly flattened at the polls.

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=WORD= Something you must keep after giving it to another.

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=WORRY= A state of mind that leads some persons to fear, every
time the tide goes out, that it won't come in again.

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=WRINKLES= A merchant's trade-marks.

It's 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=

[Illustration]

Ten dollars from a friend.

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=YARN= An essential in fabrication--either woven or narrated. Mill
yarns are highly colored; those spun at sea much more so.

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=YAWL= Either the shape of a boat or the sound of a cat, but never
a cat-boat.

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=YAWNS= The air-breaks on a sleeper.

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=YEAR= A period originally including 365 days, now 325, since the
other 40 are Lent.

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=YELLOW FEVER= A passion for reading the Hearst newspapers.

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=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.