Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this theatre on Monday last, before a large audience, in their specialty, "Hobbies." The play, whilst necessarily very superficial, is bright and sparkling, and excellently adapted to amuse, - its sole aim. The burden of the performance is admirably sustained by Mr. Goodwin. Possessing an undeniably rich vein of humor, he acts with charming verve and freshness, and his impersonation of Prof. Pygmalion Whiffles, alike in conception and execution, proves him a comedian of decided talent. Mr. Goodwin's imitations of noted actors are also very clever. The rest of the troupe fill their several parts acceptably, especially Miss Jennie Weathersby...
Notwithstanding the chilliness of the air and the unpleasant disturbances created by the "muckers," the audience was in good humor and highly gratified by the skilful playing exhibited by the gentlemen of the two teams...
...follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view and development in the latter...
Next came the ivy orator, Mr. William Bancroft Hill, of Temple, N. H., who kept his audience constantly entertained. His oration was marked by an easy, characteristic humor, and was distinguished from the customary productions of the kind by the presence of a vein of pathos, which is always an element in humor of the highest quality...
...Boston Advertiser says of the Harvard Index of 1878-79: "It follows pretty closely in the tracks of its predecessors, and makes no attempt to present the humorous side of college life." The Advertiser is evidently unable to appreciate the subtle humor of the Index...