Artemus Ward

"'Mr. President, if the reading of chapters of" Artemus Ward "is a prelude to such a deed as this, the book should be filed among the archives of the nation, and the author should be canonized.

The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln Wayne Whipple 1899

At that point, Warren thought Nixon had a reasonable chance of winning the presidency "and desperately tried to leave under a lame-duck LBJ presidency on its last legs," said Artemus Ward, a political science professor at Northern Illinois University who has written about court retirements.

Justice Ginsburg not leaving court 'anytime soon' 2011

At that point, Warren thought Nixon had a reasonable chance of winning the presidency "and desperately tried to leave under a lame-duck LBJ presidency on its last legs," said Artemus Ward, a political science professor at Northern Illinois University who has written about court retirements.

Ruthless People James Taranto 2011

Then, as he remembered many years later: One dismal afternoon as I lay on my hotel bed, completely nonplussed and about determined to inform Artemus Ward that I had nothing appropriate for his collection, a small voice began to make itself heard.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Now, with the trusty Gillis at his side, he would try on the role of San Francisco boulevardier, dipping into the rarefied waters of West Coast bohemia, which his brief exposure a few months earlier to Artemus Ward, Adah Isaacs Menken, Ada Clare, and other seasoned culture warriors had encouraged him to sample.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

As Artemus Ward and Adah Isaacs Menken had demonstrated personally to Twain in Virginia City, a seasoned performer could make good money on the speaking circuit.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Artemus Ward used that trick a good deal; then when the belated audience presently caught the joke he would look up with innocent surprise, as if wondering what they had found to laugh at.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Actually, a good bit of it was taken from Artemus Ward, with “some stretchers thrown in,” as Twain would later say in another context.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

His career most likely would have mirrored that of his recently deceased drinking companion Artemus Ward—a one-man Chautauqua show minus the religious overtones lived out in smoky lecture halls, clattering railroad stations, seedy hotel rooms, and raucous late-night bars.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

His unlikely avatar was a tall, tubercular, homosexual humorist from New England named Charles Farrar Browne, who called himself Artemus Ward in dubious honor of a Revolutionary War general of no particular accomplishments.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010