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The truth about childhood, as many of us have had to endure it, is inconceivable, scandalous, painful. Not uncommonly, it is monstrous. Invariably, it is repressed. To be confronted with this truth all at once and to try to integrate it into our consciousness, however ardently we may wish it, is clearly impossible.

Alice Miller
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Why, Captain! - my Lord! - Here's the devil to pay! / The fellow's been cut down and taken away! / What's to be done? / We've missed all the fun! - / Why, they'll laugh at and quiz us all over the town, / We are all of us done so uncommonly brown!

Rev. R. H. Barham
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OVATION, n. n ancient Rome, a definite, formal pageant in honor of one who had been disserviceable to the enemies of the nation. A lesser 'triumph.' In modern English the word is improperly used to signify any loose and spontaneous expression of popular homage to the hero of the hour and place. 'I had an ovation!' the actor man said, But I thought it uncommonly queer, That peo.

Ambrose Bierce
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PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, 'He presided at the piccolo.' The Headliner, holding the copy in hand, Read with a solemn face: 'The music was very uncommonly grand -- The best that was every provided, For our townsman Brown presided At the organ with skil.

Ambrose Bierce
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