The fact is, dad is a designation you could assign – at least in terms of age – to many of Hollywood's biggest male actors.

The best of the joke, too, is, that the very coal-merchant who is loudest in his complaints against the person who defrauded him, is the identical man who sat in the centre of the very front row of the pit last night and laughed the most boisterously at this very same thing,--and not so well done either.

“Mount Rainier has escaped the clouds.” I turned to the volcano peekabooing through the trees in the distance.

I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.