Word: comic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dollar for the rest of the year. Many will give more than this sum in payment for half the subscription of a college paper, and expend many times this amount for other reading matter, while by joining the reading-room they might have not only the best illustrated and comic papers of England and America, but also the leading journals of these two countries, and the representative dailies of Boston, New York and Springfield, not to mention sporting papers and papers from other colleges. It was hoped that the students would show such an interest in supporting this reading-room...
...behind the scenes, at the beginning of the second act. The solos of Baldwin and of Carroll were effectively sung, and enjoyed by all. The strong part of the play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless gesticulation. Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work of art in that line...
SNAP.- The latest New York success in Refined Comic Journalism. Will contain a powerful Cartoon by Alfred Thompson, of the London Graphic, highly interesting to patrons of roller skating rinks. Price five cents. All news-stands. Out Saturday, March...
...single event; while Hamlet draws its variety and intricacy from the character of the hero, and not from any great admixture of foreign matter. But in King Lear we have two distinct plots and a large number of indispensable personages. It is noticeable, however, that there are no purely comic scenes in the play,-as if the poet felt that the subject was too harrowing to admit such episodes...
...latest number of Jingo, the comic paper, has a highly edifying (?) double page colored cut of Scientific Foot Ball as exemplified by the Yale-Princeton game...