Language

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. (Herbert Hoover)

Better half = Your wife or husband

Archaic word

jack = a mean fellow

Brewer's Phrase & Fable

Lamia = A female phantom, whose name was used by the Greeks and Romans as a bugbear to children. She was a Libyan queen beloved by Jupiter, but robbed of her offspring by the jealous Juno; and in consequence she vowed vengeance against all children, whom she delighted to entice and murder. (See Fairy .)

"Keats has a poem so called. His Lamia is a serpent who assumed the form of a beautiful woman, was beloved by a young man and got a soul. The tale was drawn from Philostratus."- De Vita Apollonii book iv., introduced by Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.

Difficult words

malagma - n. (pl. -mata ) emollient plaster.

Limerick

When it rains in Calcutta, People just become wetter, But if it snows, Everyone knows, They'd pack up and move to Quetta.

Knowledge

Athenag`orasan able Christian apologist of the 2nd century, was Athenian and a pagan by birth, but being converted to Christianity, wrote an apology in its defence, and a treatise on the resurrection of the dead.

Quote

Indecision by Hippocrates - To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Tongue twister

Give me the gift of a grip top sock:
a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.

Unusual word

calcar = furnace or oven for annealing