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S

SABBATARIANISM

Sabbath

SABBATH WORK TABU

Sac

Sack

SACRAMENTAL

Sacred Heart

Sacrifice

SADISM

SADNESS

Safe

SAFETY

SAGINAW VALLEY LOGGING

SAGITTARIUS AQUARIUS CAPRICORN

SAID

Sail

Sailor

Saint

Saint Anne

Saint Anthony

Saint Florian

Saint John the Baptist

Saint Luke

Saint Nicholas

Saint Nick

Saint Patrick

Saint Patrick's Day

Saint Paul

Saint Pollonia

Saint Sangennaro

Saint Sophia

Saint Ursula

SAINT'S LEGEND: SAINT MAGNUS

SAINTS

Sake

SAKE=RICE WINE

Salamander

SALE

Salesman

SALESPERSON

Saliva

Sally

SALOON

Salt

Salt pork

Salt, Bread

Salt, Mineral, Belief, Friendship, Custom, Ownership

SALTWATER MOLLUSKS

Salutation

SALUTATIONS

Salute

SALUTE SHIPS

SALVATION

Samaritan

Same

Same Time

San Jacinto

SAN JACOB?

Sanctuary

Sand

Sandberg

Sandman

Sandwich

SANITARY

SANITATION

Sanity

Santa

SANTA CLAUS

SARAN WRAP (CLEAR, PLASTIC FOOD-WRAP)

SARCASM

Sarcasm, derision

sarcasm, humor, parental pride

Sardines

Sargent

SARSAPARILLA

SARSAPARILLA TEA

SASSAFRAS

SATAN

SATAN DEVIL IMPS

SATAN GOD

SATAN PUNISHMENT PENANCE ATONEMENT

SATIRE

SATIRE OF CAMP COUNSELOR

SATIRE OF DOCTORS

SATIRE OF EDUCATION

SATIRE OF IDIOM

SATIRE OF ITALIAN PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH

SATIRE OF JEWS

SATIRE OF MERCENARY CATHOLIC PRIESTS

SATIRE OF QUALITY OF FOOD IN THE INSTITUTION

SATIRE OF THE PRESIDENT

SATIRE OF WOMEN SEXISM

SATIRE ON PSYCHIATRY

SATIRE UNDERSTATEMENT EPITAPH LAMENT

Satisfaction

Saturday

SATURN

SATURNALIA

SAUERKRAUT

Sausage

Save

Savings

Saw

Saxons

Saying

Scale

SCAPULAR

Scar

Scare

Scarecrow

Scars

Scary

Scary Stories

Scat

SCATAL (?)OGICAL

SCATALOGICAL

SCATALOGICAL (?)

SCATALOGICAL SLANG

SCATALOGICAL URINATION

SCATOLOGICAL

SCATOLOGICAL BOOK TITLE

SCATOLOGICAL BOWEL MOVEMENT

Scatological Humor

SCATOLOGY

Scent

Scheme

SCHOOL

SCHOOL SONG

Schoolyard

SCHULE, SCHULE

SCIENCE

SCISSORS

Score

SCORPION

Scotland

SCOTS

SCOTTISH

SCOTTISH DIALECT

SCOTTISH STINGINESS

SCRATCH

SCREAMS

Screen

Screen Door

Screw

SCREWED=SLANG FOR INTERCOURSE

Scrimp

SEA

SEAFOOD

SEALS

Seaman

Sears

SEASON

SEASON FRIUT

Seasonal

SEASONAL SONG

SEASONING

SEASONS

SEATER=BUTTOCKS

Second

SECRECY PRIVACY

SECRECY?

SECRET

secret language

SECRETARY

SECRETIVE

Sedentary

SEDUCTION

See

SEE ALSO CICADA

See No Evil

SEE NUMBERED, WHEEL-CHART, DRAWN ON 5 X 8 CARD.

SEE ROBERTS' SOUTH FROM HELL-FOR-SATAN, TALE 71.

SEE STORY OF EPANDAMANDUS

Seed

SEEDS SEED HEAD

Seeing

SEEN

Segregation

Seizure

SELDOM

Selection

Self

SELF CONFIDENCE

SELF DEPRECATION

SELF DISCIPLINE

SELF-CRITICISM

SELF-SACRIFICE

SELF-SACRIFICE--FASTING

Sell

SEMANTICS

Seminary

Semitic

SEMITISM

Senility

SENILITY AGE

SENSES

SENTIMENT

Separate

SEPARATION

SEPARATION OF THE SEXES

SEQUENCE

Serbian

SERENADING

SERGEANT

SERGEANT SONG, LIKE CAPTAIN SONG

SERIOUSNESS

Sermon

Serpent

Servant

Serve

Service

Serving

Set

Settlement

Settler

Seven

SEVEN KNOTS

SEVEN MONTH OLD COUSIN I HOPE, SINCE HE STILL IS

Sever

SEVERAL SIMILAR COMMENTS IN THE ARCHIVES.

SEVERANCE RITUAL

SEVERED HEAD OF HUMAN USED AS BALL

Sew

SEWER

SEWING

SEWING SEW

SEX

SEX DETERMINATION

SEX INTERCOURSE

SEX, LUST

SEX, REFRAIN

Sexes

SEXISM RHYME: ABCB

SEXISM

SEXISM?

SEXIST

SEXUAL CONNOTATION?

SEXUAL EUPHEMISM

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

SEXUAL INTERCOURSE=LAY

SEXUAL SLUR

Sexuality

SEXUALLY AROUSED = HORNY

Sexy

Shack

Shade

Shades

Shadow

SHAGGY DOG

SHAGGY DOG CANTE FABLE

SHAGGY DOG STORY

Shake

Shake Hands

shake that thing

Shaker Lake

SHAKESPEARE: WE'VE COME TO BURY CEASER, NOT TO PRAISE HIM.

SHANTY BOY

SHAPE

Shape of state of Michigan

shape size

Share

Sharp

Shaving

Shaytana Gronue is "It" in this game.

Shedding

SHEENIES

SHEENY MAN

SHEEP

SHEEP DUNG

Sheets

Shell

SHELLFISH

Shells

Shepard

Shine

Ship

ship, christening, advice

Shirt

SHIVAREE

SHIVAREE CHIVAREE

Shoe

SHOES

SHOES FECES

SHOESTRINGS

Shoot

SHOOT THE BREEZE: ENGAGE IN CONVERSATION

Shop

Shoplifting

SHOPPING

SHORT STORY AS RIDDLE

Shortcoming

Shorter

Shorts

SHORTSIGHTEDNESS

Shot

Shotgun

SHOULDER

SHOVELING

Show

Shower

SHRINE IN QUEBEC, CANADA

Shroud

Shrubbery

Shuck

SHUFFLEBOARD

Shutout

Sibling

Sicilian

SICK

SICK HUMOR

SICK JOKE

Sick Jokes

SICKNESS

SICKROOM

Side

SIDEWALK

SIDEWALK SQUARE?

Sifter

Sight

SIGN

SIGN LANGUAGE

SIGN OF THE CROSS?

Signal

Signature

Signifier

Signs

SILENCE

Silk

Silly

SILLY RABBIT, KIX ARE FOR KIDS.

Silver

Silverware

Similar

SIMILAR TO CURLING

SIMILAR TO DOG HOWLING

Similarity

SIMILARITY HYPOCRISY

SIMILE

SIMILE ADVICE PREPARATION FOR DEATH

SIMILE ANIMAL EMOTION

SIMILE COMPARISON

SIMILE COMPARISON CONTRAST UGLINESS

SIMILE FROM NATURE

SIMILE INDIRECTION HUMOR MARRIAGE

SIMILE TALKING LYING

SIMILE: COMPARISON TO A NUT.

SIMILES RHYME: ABCB

SIMILES

Simmer

Simon

Simon Says

Simplicity

SIMULTANEITY

Simultaneity of speech

Simultaneous

SIMULTANEOUS DEATH OF TWINS

SIN

SIN DECEIT COSTUME

SIN FAMILY SEX

SIN OF OMISSION

SIN SIN SIN SIN SIN SIN

SINCE BURNED DOWN.

SINCERITY

SINCERITY INDIRECTION PLEDGE FRIENDSHIP

Sing

SINGING

Single

SINGLE COMBAT

Sink

SIREN

Sirens

Sit

SIT (A)

Sit-In

Six

SIX OF ONE

SIX PACK: SLANG FOR 6 CANS (USUALLY OF BEER) BOUND TOGETHER

Sixth

SIZE

SIZE HUMOR

SKELETON

Skill

SKILL PERFECTION

Skim

SKIN

Skincare

Skinny

SKUNK

Sky

SKYSCRAPERS.

Slab

SLANDER

SLANG

SLANG CONTRADICTION

SLANG DEROGATORY

Slang Expressions

SLANG FOR BANANA, PIANI, BUTTOCKS

SLANG FOR BUTTOCKS

SLANG FOR CHILD

SLANG FOR DASHBOARD CLIPPING

SLANG FOR FATHER

SLANG FOR MAKING HIMSELF LOOK FOOLISH (AN ASS OF HIMSELF).

SLANG FOR MONEY

SLANG FOR URINATION

SLANG NAME

SLANG OLD MAN FOR HUSBAND.

SLANG PARODY EATING

SLANG SHMOO JERK DOPE

SLANG--DIAG FOR DIAGONAL?

SLANG--NUT

SLANG-PRICK FOR PENIS

SLANG: "CAN" FOR "TOILET"

SLANG: "CAN" FOR TOILET."

SLANG: BABY FOR SWEETHEART

SLANG: BIG HOUSE

SLANG: BIG MOUTH FOR OFFENSIVE TALKER

SLANG: BOX FOR VAGINA

SLANG: BREAD = MONEY

SLANG: BUCK FOR DOLLAR

SLANG: CHEEK FOR BUTTOCKS

SLANG: CHUG=DRINK IT ALL AT ONCE.

SLANG: CLEANED OUT: OUT OF MONEY.

SLANG: DICK FOR PENIS

SLANG: HEAD FOR FOAM

SLANG: JOHN FOR TOILET

SLANG: KID FOR CHILD

SLANG: MONKEYING AROUND FOR DALLIANCE.

SLANG: OLD MAN FOR

SLANG: PEE FOR URINATE

SLANG: PEE FOR URINE

SLANG: PEW FOR STENCH

SLANG: PIECE FOR SEXUAL INTERCOURSE

SLANG: QUEER FOR HOMOSEXUAL

SLANG: SPARKING FOR KISSING AND HUGGING

SLANG=BEAN FOR HEAD

SLANT RHYME

SLANT RHYME: GOOD, FOOD

Slapped

Slave

Slavery

Slaves

Slavic

SLED

SLEEP

Sleep-talking

Sleeping

SLEEPING BEAR SAND DUNE

SLEEPWALKER

Sleepwalking

SLEEPWEAR ATTIRE

Slicks

Slide

SLIMNESS

SLIP

Slipper

SLIPPERY

SLOGAN

SLOUCHIER?

Slovak

Slovakian

Slow

Slugger

Slur

Small

Small Storms

Smart

Smash

Smell

SMELL BODY ODOR

SMELLY CLOTHERS

SMILE

Smoke

SMOKING

SMOKING TABU DURING EXAMINATIONS

SNACK

SNADWICHES

Snake

SNAKES

Snap

SNEEZE

Sniff

SNIGLET

Snobbery

SNOBBISH

SNOOTY

Snots

SNOW

Snowball

Snowman

SNUB

Snug

SOAK=DRUNK

Soap

Sobra Mesa

Social

Social Class

SOCIAL CLASS RANK THAILAND

Social Group

Social Rank

SOCIAL RELATIONS

Social: Drinking

Society

SOCKS

Soda

SODA CRACKER

SODA POP HELL

SODA POP

Soda Water

SODIUM BICARBONATE

SOFT DRINKS

Soil

Soldier

SOLDIER DISGUISED AS DEVIL REFORMS COMPULSIVE GAMBLER

SOLITUDE

Solstice

SOME CONTRADICTION HERE--PASSION PLAY=CRUCIFIXION.

Somnambulism

Son

SONG

SONG PARODY

SONG TITLE: DARKTOWN STRUTTERS BALL

SONG TITLE: IT DON'T MEAN A THING IF YOU AIN'T GOT THAT SWING

SONG TITLE: MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY

SONG TITLE: WHEN THE MOON COMES OVER THE MOUNTAINS

SONG WITH GESTURES

SONG: HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINDOW.

SONG: IT'S A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY

SONG: JUST A SONG AT TWILIGHT

SONG?

SONGS

Soon

SOPHOCLES

Sore Throat

SORES

Sorority

SORORITY OR FRATERNITY SONG

SORORITY SONG

SORROW

Sorry

Soul

souls

Sound

SOUND: DACTYLIC TETRAMETER

Soup

Sour

SOUR GRAPES

Source

South

SOUTH AMERICA

South American

South Carolina

SOUTH KISS

South Korea

South: east West

Southwest

Souvenir

Sow

SOW?

Space

Spaceman

SPAGHETTI

Spain

SPAIN KISS

Spanish

SPANISH BELIEF

SPANKING

Spare

SPARRING

Sparrow

Speak

Speak No Evil

Speaking in unison

SPEAKING TABU

Specimen

SPECKS=SPECTACLES GLASSES.

SPECTACLES

SPECTACLES GLASSES

SPECTACLES GLASSES SLANG

SPEECH

SPEECH METAPHOR

SPEECH TABOO

SPEECH TABU

SPEED

Speed Jump

SPEED-JUMP

SPEED-RHYME

Spell

SPELLING

SPELLING (A)

SPELLING RHYME

SPELLING RIDDLE

SPELLING STATE LETTER SHAPE

SPELLING: RED FOR READ

Spend

SPICE

Spice spicy

Spiced

Spicy

SPIDER

SPILL

SPILLED

SPILLED SALT

Spinach

Spine

SPINNING WHEEL

SPINSTER

SPIRIT

SPIRIT SPECTER

SPIRITS

SPIRITUAL READING

SPIT

Spitting

SPITTLE

Splinter

SPLITTING A POLE

SPLITTING A POLE (POST)

SPLITTING A POLE?

Splotches

Spoil

Spoiled

SPONDEES

Sponging

SPONTANEOUS REACTION

Spoof

Spook

Spooky

Spoon

SPOONERISM

SPOONERISM CONUNDRUM

Sport

SPORTS

SPORTS BASEBALL

SPORTS CHEER

SPORTS FOOTBALL

Spring

SPRING IS SPRUNG VARIANT

SPRING TONIC

SPRINKLING

SPRINKLING HOLY WATER

SPUNK=SCOTTISH GAELIC DERIVATION, SPONG--TINDER,

SPURTS CHEER

SPY GOSSIP

SQUASH

Squatting

Squeak

SQUEAL

Squeeze

Squid

Squills

St. Andrew

St. Anthony

ST. BEFANA

ST. BLAISE

ST. ELMO, PATRON OF SAILORS.

ST. JOHN'S

St. Jude

ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

ST. NICHOLAS

ST. NICHOLAS DAY

ST. NICHOLAS' DAY

ST. NICHOLAS'DAY

St. Nick

St. Patrick

St. Paul's Episcopal Church

ST. STEPHEN'S DAY

ST. STEPHENS DAY

Stab

Stabbed

Stage

Stagnant

Stagnation

Stain

Stain Remover

STAIRCASE PARALLELISM

Stairs

STALE

STAMP

STAMPING

Stand

STANZA

Star

Star of Bethlehem

STAR OF THE PROGRAM, GRAHAM KERR, AN AUSTRALIAN

STAR SPANGLED BANNER

STAR-SPANGLED BANNER

STARCH

STARS

STARTING A NEW CHAPTER IN LIFE BY MENDING MY WAYS

Startle

STARVATION

STASIU IS A POLISH FIRST NAME.

STATE

STATE CONFUSED WITH CITY

STATE OF BEING (Q)

STATE OF BEING (Q) AND COLOR

STATE OF BEING (Q) COLOR

STATE OF BEING - COLOR (Q)

State rhymes

STATES OF BEING (A)

STATES OF BEING (Q)

STATES OF BEING (Q) COLOR

STATUE

STATUE (Q)

STATUE OF WILLIAM PENN

STATUES USED AS AMULETS IN AUTOMOBILES

STAY OUT OF DANGER IF YOU'RE VULNERABLE

Steak

Steal

STEALING

Steam

STEAMING FOOD

Stem

Step

STEPFATHER

Stereotype

Stereotyping

Stew

Stick

STICK @EM UP

STICK TO WHAT YOU KNOW

Sticker

Sticks

STICKY SITUATION

STIGMATA

Still

Sting

STINGINESS

STINGY

Stink

Stipper

Stitch

Stitches

Stock

STOCKING

STOICISM

Stolen

STOMACH

STOMACH AILMENTS

Stomp

STONE

STONES

STONES USED TO MAKE BRIDGE NOW A HISTORIC PATH

STONES USED TO MAKE BRIDGE OF LOVE

Stooping

Store

STOREY STORY

Stories

STORK

Storm, wet

Story

STORY STOREY

Straight

STRAIGHT STRAIGHTEN

STRAINED RHYME?

STRAND OF HAIR

Stranded

STRANGE CHILDREN

Stranger

STRANGULATION

STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK

STRAWBERRY

Stream

Streamer

Streamers

STREET

STREET BLACK CAT

STREET MEDIEVAL

STRENGTH

STRIKE WHILE THE IRON IS HOT

String

Strong

strong man

STRONG MEN

STRUCTURE, PATTERN AND FORM

STRUCTURE: QUESTIONS WITHOUT ANSWERS

STUB

STUB YOUR TOE

STUBBED?

Stubborn

STUBBORNNESS

STUCK-UP

Student

Students

STUDENTS, CLAWING

Study

Studying

Stuffed animals

STUMBLE?

Stump

stung

Stupid

Stupid People

STUPIDITY

STUPIDITY FOLLY ERROR ABSURDITY THOUGHT

STUPIDITY: COUNTING TWO AS ONE

STUPIDITY: INABILITY TO COUNT

STUPIDITY?

STUTTER

STUTTERING

STY

STY? STAR?

Stye

Styx

SUBARU IS AN AUTOMOBILE, MADE IN JAPAN

SUBJECT SOUND RHYME:

SUBJECT: ACCIDENTS, ANIMALS

Submarine

Submarines

Subterranean

Succeed

SUCCESS

SUCCESS AND FAILURE

SUCCESS BREEDS ITSELF

SUCCESS FAILURE

Succession

SUCCOT

Suffocate

SUFFOCATION

Sugar

SUGAR SUBSTITUTES

SUGGESTION COW DUNG

SUICIDE

SUICIDE BY BURNING

Suitcase

SUITORS

SUKKOT

Sulfur

Summer

Sun

Sunburn

SUNDAE

Sunday

Sundays

Sundown

Sunrise vigil

SUNSET

SUNSET, DAWN

Sunshine

Sunstroke

Superficial

SUPERNATURAL

SUPERNATURAL LEGEND

SUPERNATURAL: CAPTAIN'S SHOES AS LUCKY CHARM

SUPERNATURAL: COUNTING TO TEN

SUPERNATURAL: HORSESHOE AS LUCKY CHARM

SUPERNATURAL: KNOCKING ON WOOD

SUPERNATURAL: SALT AS LUCKY CHARM

SUPERNATURAL: TOUCHING WOOD

SUPERSTITION

SUPERSTITION AIDS

Superstition, advice, tabu

Superstition, Belief

superstition, vegetation, curse

Supper

SUPPLICATION

Supply

SUPPOSED ACCIDENT

SUPPOSELY THAT IS WHERE SHE LIVES.

Suppression

SUPRISE ENDING

Sure

Surface

SURPISE ENDING RETORT

SURPRISE

SURPRISE ENDING

SURPRISE ENDING CARS DRIVING MYSTERY

SURPRISE ENDING DIALOGUE

SURPRISE ENDING LIMERICK HUMOR

SURPRISE ENDING QUATRAIN CONTRADICTION

SURPRISE ENDING, NUTSHELL NARRATIVE QUATRAIN

Surrender

Survival

Survivors

SUSPENDERS (Q)

SUSPICION

SUSTENANCE

Swallow

Swear

SWEARING

Sweat

SWEATER

Swedish

Sweep

Sweet

Sweetheart

SWIECZONKA

SWIFTIES?

Swim

SWIMMING

Swing

Switch

Switches

SWITCHING

SWITCHING WHIPPING

SWITZERLAND GUEST

SYLLOGISM

SYLVESTER

SYMBOL

SYMBOL CODE

SYMBOL METONYMY RELIGION TIME

SYMBOL OF FIRE PREVENTION

SYMBOL: FIERY DEVIL FOR SEXUAL INTEREST

SYMBOL: FOUR CORNERS

SYMBOL: HAIR

Symbolic

SYMBOLIC ACTION

SYMBOLISM

SYMBOLISM MM

SYMBOLISM UNKNOWN

Symbolize

SYMBOLS

SYMBOLS OF CHRIST'S WOUNDS

SYMBOLS: INITIALS

SYMPATHETIC DEATH

SYMPATHETIC MAGIC

sympathetic sickness

SYMPATHY

Synonym

SYNTAX

SYPHILIS

Syracuse

Syrup

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