Charivari

Founds a dining club called The Charivari and is notorious for driving a red Ferrari.

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Founds a dining club called The Charivari and is notorious for driving a red Ferrari.

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But inasmuch as Landells was an engraver, who would have delighted in the opportunity offered to his apprentices by a "big cut," as he was anxious above all things to follow the Paris "Charivari" (the very _raison d'être_ of which was the large political cartoon), and as, moreover, the original "dummy" of the paper makes provision for such a cartoon, the statement is not to be accepted.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Yet although it was not, as will appear, Henry Mayhew who was the actual initiator of _Punch_, it was unquestionably he to whom the whole credit belongs of having developed Landells 'specific idea of a "Charivari," and of its conception in the form it took.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

"Charivari" takes the dignity out of an obnoxious minister.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

"Charivari" than on anything that had appeared in England; but they plainly saw that to attract and hold the public the paper which they imagined must be a weekly and not a daily one.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

For some years the success of the Paris "Charivari" had attracted the attention of Mr. Ebenezer Landells, wood-engraver, draughtsman, and newspaper projector.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

"Athenæum," and protested against any attempt at monopoly, pointing out that the sub-title "Charivari" was itself a plagiarism.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Some fellow has just taken the "Charivari" for her.

The Giant's Robe F. Anstey 1895

"Charivari" takes the dignity out of an obnoxious minister.

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