| Line / Word | Strategy / Meaning |
| Impudent (line 5) | |
| Corn Pone (line 6) | |
| 'He must get his opinions ... no first hand views.' | |
| 'an opinion has been born somewhere' | |
| Aggregation | |
| 'the jury has been closed against outside influences | |
| '[idea] before they could catch it and stuff it and put it in the museum' | |
| | Line / Word | Strategy / Meaning |
| Boon | |
| 'in clothes, or manners, or liturature... or any other matter' | |
| 'A new thing in costume appears -- the flaring hoopskirt' | |
| Sordid | |
| 'mush of mutilated morals' | |
| 'we know why Catholics are Catholics...and Democrats, Democrats' | |
| Ornate | |
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