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Time and tide wait for no man--But time always stands still for a
woman of thirty.


NATURE The author of "The Seasons," an interesting work over which
Spring pours, Summer smiles, and Autumn turns the leaves while
Winter catches the drift of it all.

NECK A close connection between chin and chest, used for the
display of linen, silk, furs, jewelry and skin, fitted with gullet,
windpipe, hunger and thirst, and devoted to the rubber industry.

NEGRO One who votes your way. NIGGER One who doesn't.

NEIGHBOR One who knows more about your affairs than yourself.

NERVE Breaking the hair-brush on the disobedient scion, then
making him pay for a new one. See revised version, "Spare the rod
and spoil the hair-brush!"

"NEXT" The barberous password to the heaven of the shaved and the
unshaved.

NIP Something bracing from without or within. When felt in the
air, it's a frost. When found in a glass, a life saver.

NOBILITY A gang of foreign brigands having abducent designs on the