ERRATIC

    Full of mistakes.

     ETHER

    One of the world's three great composers—the others being Gas and Chloroform—whose airs are popular among the suffering.

     ETIQUETTE

    A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed.

     EVOLUTION

    A clever trick performed by one Darwin, who made a monkey of Adam.

     EXCURSION

    From

     ex

    . former, and Grk.

     kairo

    , to enjoy. Hence, a tiresome journey—formerly an enjoyment—sold at half price.

     EXERCISE

    Bodily exertion requiring a $10,000 gymnasium, a ten-acre lot and impossible raiment. Originally confined to the wash-tub and the wood-pile.

     EXPANSION

    A combination of Grand Larceny and Piracy, involving the destruction of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.—Boston.

    The benevolent assimilation of previously oppressed peoples—Washington, D.C.

    A doubtful commercial experiment.—Wall Street.

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