Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1918 — GLOSSARY. [ARTICLE]

GLOSSARY.

Some of Billy Sunday’* Noun* and Their Attendant Adjective*, Etc. A PRUSSIAN —A damnable, rotten, vile, cruel assassin. THE KAISER—A weazel-eyed, pigjowled, bull-pecked, ppt-bellied, God-hating, dirty, stinking cutthroat who will get HIS when we lock the devil’s dirty mouth and manicure his paws. OTHER PRUSSIANS —God-forsak-en gang of thugs and gormandize on the bones of little children and the mangled bodies of innocent women they have left behind them. A CABARET DANCER —A daughter of Herodias who kicks her foot up to a quarter to 12, doing the hoochi-koochi, can-can, kitchen sink, and tangle wriggle. A “WET” CITY —An old, whiskeysoaked, polluted city that is going to hell so fast she’s breaking the speed limit. ONE WHO OPPOSES BILLY’S CAMPAIGN —A buttermilk-eyed, white-livered, stoop-shouldered mutt. A BREWER —Bilious, slant-head, stinkink sot with a half ounce power bean. A TIGHTWAD —A gink who never gives away 10 cents without singing, “God be with you till we meet again,” and who sings through his nose for fear he will wear out'his false teeth. , A SOUR-FACED CHRISTIAN—A fellow who thinks he has to look like a hedgehog to be pious, and who would get to heaven lots ‘quicker if he went to a barber shop oftener. PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY WOMEN—Hags of uncleanliness who walk our streets, rest behind rich tapestries, cruise upon their yachts, or flaunt themselves at us from their limousines. DIVORCE —Something that is legally right but morally as rotten as hell. BOOZE INTERESTS —A rattlesnake that wriggled its miserable carcass out of hell, where there was a jubilee when lager beer was invented. PRO-GERM ANS—Dirty, smirking pretzels from across the sea who settled on our necks like carbuncles;