Word: comical
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...comic paper, rival of Puck and The Judge, will soon be started in New York. A paper of that city says: "New York will be supposed to supply the readers, and Boston, or rather Harvard, the wits." - [Traveller...
...surer market, a more various intellectual growth, are to be gained in the national metropolis. Harvard men are thronging in the ranks of the learned professions here, and only the briefest residence is needed to make them typical (i. e., cosmopolitan) New Yorkers. The staff of the new comic journal, Life, of which the first number will appear next week, is composed almost wholly of bright young Harvard wits, who have found Boston a good training school but have discovered that New York henceforth is the ground for successful literary careers...
BIJOU THEATRE. -"Virginia." Comic Opera. Performance...
...house to laugh at Barnabee's same old "faces," applaud Tom Carl's same old affectations, and pronounce "simply exquisite" Miss Stone's far from exquisite voice. The chorus will go through their same old by-plays, and all the Boston papers will continue to declare it the best comic opera company in the world...
Fred. Coyne, a popular London comic singer and author, will shortly make a tour in the United States. He will best be remembered as the author of "Pull Down the Blinds," "Whoa, Emma," and other songs that have gained popularity...