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Show ..:..;a:;::;:::;:;: :;;.;:; ::;;;::;;::;:;:;;:;;;;::: y;; Small Girl's Positive Definition Is Good One "Isn't fhat lovely?" said grandma to a three-year-old. "Yes," assenlud the minute granddaughter, "it's grand-iful." grand-iful." Why not? The word is as good a hybrid as a thousand that have butted their way into the dictionary, and it gives full value, combining, as it does, the concepts of beauty and of grandeur. I think it is worth keeping. keep-ing. So are some of the definitions invented in-vented by the same embryonic lexicographer. lexi-cographer. "A man ami a hoy was there," she was declaring; "not two men, just a man and a boy." Not quite convinced, her aunt inquired. "What is I lie difference between a man and a boy?" ".Men spank boys." w'as the prompt and positive answer. How useless it is to deny that our whole Weltanschauung is based on social so-cial distinctions! Are all men born free and equal? Possibly; hut they remain in that grandiful state of equality only as long as they are unbankable. un-bankable. Once the age of spatik-ability spatik-ability sets in, society splits into two strata, the spankers and the spank-ees. spank-ees. and remains tints cleft. Charles Hall Grandgent, in "The New Word." |