Also he is careful not to use such words as rector, deacon and baccalaureate in merely rhetorical senses. Nor does he call mutton lamb, or milk cream. Nor does he use cuspidor for spittoon, or B. V. D.'s as a euphemism for underwear, or butterine for oleomargarine. Men are distinguished by being called president of a corporation. I know one president whose staff consists of two typists.
Many firms have four vice-presidents.
A dentist is called a doctor. The hotel valet is a tailor. Magistrates of police-courts are judges instead of merely Mr. I wandered into a university, knowing nobody, and casually asked for the dean. In that building there were enough deans to stock all the English cathedrals. The master of a secret society is royal supreme knight commander.