id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 1989 Wurdz, Gideon The Foolish Dictionary An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin, meaning, legitimate and illegitimate use, confused by a few pictures [not included] .txt text/plain 12648 2601 87 receive." =GOOD ADVICE= Something old men give young men when =ALLOPATHY= From Eng. _all_, everybody, and Grk. _pathos_, pain. =BIRDIE= A term a woman is apt to apply to a man she is playing t., From Eng. _con_,--hot air, and Lat. _pleo_, to woman stone-blind to the defects of the man proffering it. =HEAVEN= A good place to be raised to. =HOPE= A desire for better things to come that makes a grass widow =HOTEL= A place where a guest often gives up good dollars for poor From Lat. _incendo_, to burn, and Eng. _cent_, meaning money. =LOVE= A man's insane desire to become a woman's meal-ticket. Many hands make light work--also a good Jackpot. =PLATONIC LOVE= An arrangement in which a man and woman attempt a =SAILOR= A man who makes his living on water but never touches it engagements, with Woman as the star and Man confined in the ./cache/1989.txt ./txt/1989.txt