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.

The white man's burden.—Kipling.


EXPLOSION A good chance to begin at the bottom and work up.


EXPOSITION An overgrown Department Store, usually opened a year or two behind time.