DEFINITIONS
Cannon: An instrument employed in the rectification of national boundaries. Envelope: The coffin of a docm ment; the scabbard of a bill; the rusk of a remittance; the bedgown of a love-letter. Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the tableNoise: A stench in the car; um I domesticated music; the chief product and authenticating sign of civilisation. Private: A military gentleman with a field marshal's baton in liis knapsack and an impediment in his hope. Sauce: The one infallible sign of civilisation and enlightenment. Tenacity: A certain finality of the human hand in its relation to coin of the realm.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 64, 13 April 1943, Page 3
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120DEFINITIONS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 64, 13 April 1943, Page 3
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