Word: witness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Silent Partner."The Silent Partner" elicited continuous laughter from a large house at the Hollis last evening, although it does not depend on refined or elevating wit for its success. The situations are starting and amusing, and the parts are fairly well acted...
...Boston Museum continues to be stow upon its many patrons "All the Comforts of Home," with all its wealth of wit and humor. The cast is substantially the same as at its first presentation, and while the play in parts is a trifle coarse, as a whole it is very well received by the audience...
...discussion in French 9 today will be "the difference between French and American wit...
...tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic is the most noteworthy of the good qualities of the book which is really a combination of satire and wit. English nobility and royalty are lashed unsparingly by Mr. Clemen's strokes of sarcasm, and the reasonable fear is that he has carried his absurd exaggeration too far for any beneficial effect to result from...
...author's style in this work, as in his others, is always bright and refreshing, but here also are occasional lapses into a lower order of wit than is worthy of the writer. As a book, however, full of situations and incidents perfectly absurd and yet highly amusing nothing could be more successful...