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Bierce, Ambrose (1911): The devil's dictionary (1881-1906). Cleveland Ohio u.a.: The World Publ. Comp.""

YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMNYANK.)

UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Specifically, in American history, the substitution of the rule of an Administration for that of a Ministry, whereby the welfare and happiness of the people were advanced a full half-inch. Revolutions are usually accompanied by a considerable effusion of blood, but are accounted worth it -- this appraisement being made by beneficiaries whose blood had not the mischance to be shed. The French revolution is of incalculable value to the Socialist of today; when he pulls the string actuating its bones its gestures are inexpressibly terrifying to gory tyrants suspected of fomenting law and order.

Bierce, Ambrose (1911): The devil's dictionary. Cleveland Ohio u.a.: The World Publ. Comp.