6 definitions
A Bill (n.) gets mislaid more readily than a cheque.
Divorce (n.) was on the colleague's mind: “Why should a man like me marry?” he asked — then told of a nurse named as co-respondent “and he got the divorce.”
A Freudian slip (n.) always has a reason; and the man who says someone who pays attention to every triviality is positively dangerous has just been caught by one.
Marriage (n.) was the real complaint of the man who blamed his breakdown on the cotton market and wrote “that d—d frigid wife; there isn't even any seed.”
Parapraxis (n.) served the husband who didn't want to go to the party: he locked the key inside the trunk with his dress-suit.
A Psychoanalyst (n.) slips too: Brill promised to cure a patient's symptoms 'because it is a durable case' — meaning curable.