The password, which was "Paris," helped, and we felt it a most appropriate password as we came to the broad streets of the city that was safe.

BABA, ALI, the character in the "Arabian Nights" who discovers and enters the den of the Forty Thieves by the magic password "SESAMË" (q. v.), a word which he accidentally overheard.

"You may have bombs concealed up your sleeves; you may exchange mysterious passwords with people in the streets; you may be much less innocent than you appear.

Stepping away from the crowd the Air Service Boys delivered their message, which was really a sort of prearranged password.

" "Isn't that excitinga secret password," cried Jane enthusiastically.

By way of providing a substitute for realI mean intellectualsuperiority, which is seldom to be met with, and intolerable when it is found, society has capriciously adopted a false kind of superiority, conventional in its character, and resting upon arbitrary principles,a tradition, as it were, handed down in the higher circles, and, like a password, subject to alteration; I refer to bon-ton fashion.

this is the universal password of the second-rate.