Word: humorists
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...humorist "Eli Perkins" delivered a lecture at Boston University on the "Philosophy of Wit and Humor," on Thursday evening...
...following course of musical and literary entertainment has been instituted at Amherst: December 5, reading of Midsummer Nights' Dream, by E. F. Thompson, accompanied by Listemann's Orchestra of Boston; January 18, Swedish Ladies' quartette, of Stockholm, and Edward T. Phelan, humorist; February 14, lecture by Mr. George Kennan; February 27, Bill Nye and John Whitcomb Riley; March 4, New York Philharmonic Club...
...Lord Rectorship of the University of St. Andrew's : "Every one will be pleased if the St. Andrew's men elect Mr. Lowell. The choice will be all literary, and not in the least political. The election of Mr. Lowell will be a graceful compliment to a distinguished scholar, humorist and University man, from a country which is always receiving English visitors with the warmest welcome. Mr. Lowell's charming gifts as a speaker cannot but be welcome in the holder of an office, where to make a speech is almost the only public duty...
...Darkly the humorist...
...watch them as they sit making tatting, or crocheting " fascinators"; they can talk just as well as though their hands were idle. I dont know about that Faith; it seems to me that she is just a little too quick in her retorts. She advises me to be a humorist - could sarcasm go further? But she doesn't know as much as she ought to, for she asked me one day whether the college course fitted me for the ministry. And little Hope came running to meet me the other day with the strange question, "Is n't Harvard...