_ Money makes the mayor go.--
Proverbs of Politics. =GALLON= From the Fr.
galonner, to make tight. Note, one is sufficient.
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=GALLANTRY= This word is now almost obsolete. It was formerly employed to express a deferential attention on the part of the man who in a crowded car gave up his seat to the ladies.
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=GAMBLER= From the Grk.
gumnos, stripped to the skin. And the gambler's the one that does it.
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=GARDEN= From the Fr.
garantir, to make good. Hence, a place where lovers make good.
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=GARLIC= From Grk.
gar, for, and Lat.
liceor, to bid. Good for the biddies.
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=GEM= A breakfast muffin. With the newly married, syn. for "a precious stone."
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=GERM= A bit of animal life living in water.
=GERMAN= More animal life, living on beer.
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=GIRAFFE= The champion rubber-neck of the world, and the longest thirst on record.
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=GLOBE= An all-round proposition which has furnished its shareholders a living for several thousand years, though its stock is two-thirds water.
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=GOAT= The honored founder and oldest inhabitant of Harlem, N.Y. Elsewhere, not in good odor.
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=GOLF= An excuse for carrying unconcealed weapons and a Scotch breath.
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=GONDOLA= A pleasure craft which plies in Venice, at World's Fairs and other popular watering places. From Eng.
gone, and Lat.
dolor, sadness, or Eng.
dollar. Sadness gone; also, a gone dollar.
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=GORE= Blood. Shed daily in Chicago abattoirs but never spilled in French duels.
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=GOSSIP= Derived either from the Grk.
gups, vulture, or Fr.
gosier, wind-pipe. Hence, a vulture that tears its prey to bits, or an exercise of the wind-pipe from which every victim gets a blow.
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=GOUT= The undesirable scion of High Living, which frequent the lowest joints and is mentioned only in the Invalid's Foot-Notes.
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=GOWN= From Lat.
gaudium, joy. A thing of beauty and a joy forever; if from Paris, generally an article of some Worth.
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=GUNPOWDER= A black substance much employed in marking the boundary lines of nations.
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=GUM= A substance for sticking.
=GUM-GAME= A game in which some one is stuck.
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=GUTTER= A school in which we may study the dregs of humanity or read the reflection of the stars.
There's many a slip twixt the toe and the heel. _