[…] his disease is mostly impatience with contemporary trends in art and literature that have passed him by. And so he rechews the classics, “which those ignorant fellows never bothered to read,” […]

I drest myself in my second-mourning suit in which I had been powdered […].

The second class in the bureaucracy, among whom are to be found most of the men occupying political posts just below the top, consists of arrivistes, who are enthusiastic Bolsheviks because of the material success of Bolshevism.

It is called bachelor in the Ohio Valley, campbellite, croppie, and new-light in Illinois, Indiana, and Кentucky; tin-mouth or paper-mouth in northern Indiana and Illinois, and sac-à-lait, and chinduapin perch in the lower Mississippi and Texas.