Acquaintance: Any one we bow to politely at the opera or shake hands with warmly in a barroom, but whom we would kick out of our homes. Hence, any one who has refused us a loan.
Act: 1. Thought in motion. 2. An actor who says he gets three thousand a week.
Abyss: 1. The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine. 2. The distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.
Army: A body of humanitarians that seeks to impress on another body of men the beauty of non-resistance, by exterminating them.
Aborigine: 1. A natural, unaffected person; one who has no conscience, who is honest, upright, and always at war. 2. A Deist, a Pantheist, who sees God in everything and feels His presence everywhere, even in his cannibalistic rites; hence, the first thinker in any country. 3. One who hates civilization and the Ladies' Hum Journal. 4. Any one who is mulcted, robbed, murdered, butchered, betrayed, in the name of progress.