Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.
Famous, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.
Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.
Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
