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- Author:Henry Wheeler Shaw (redirect from Josh Billings)ShawHenry WheelerShawJosh BillingsAmerican humorist; better known by his pen name, Josh Billings Farmers' Allminax Josh Billings' Sayings Everybody's...550 bytes (138 words) - 22:01, 9 March 2018
- volumes, among which are Josh Billings: His Sayings (1866), Josh Billings on Ice (1868), Everybody's Friend (1876), Josh Billings: His Works, Complete (1876)...2 KB (246 words) - 02:39, 23 May 2016
- SHAW, Henry Wheeler (1818-85). An American humorist, better known as Josh Billings, born at Lanesborough, Mass. He entered Hamilton College, but soon went...1 KB (158 words) - 02:41, 23 May 2016
- Literature — Shaw, Henry WheelerJohn William Cousin Shaw, Henry Wheeler ("JOSH Billings") (1818-1885). -- Humorist, b. in Massachusetts. After working on steam-boats...839 bytes (101 words) - 21:42, 21 November 2009
- choose that which shall give him relaxation of mind and nerve, perhaps the Innocents abroad, or Josh Billings' "Allminax," or Samanthy at Saratoga....2 KB (260 words) - 06:19, 3 July 2022
- "Carrie's Comedy" (William Livingstone Alden) "To Correspondents" (Josh Billings) "The Worst Man and the Stupidest Man in Turkey" (Samuel S. Cox) "First-Class...5 KB (558 words) - 23:37, 13 January 2013
- Boston. In Redpath's office one could often meet and "swap stories" with Josh Billings (Henry W. Shaw) and Petroleum V. Nasby (David R. Locke)—well-known humorists...286 bytes (737 words) - 22:18, 9 December 2016
- Address, AMERICAN PUBLISHING CO., HARTFORD, CONN. DOUBLE ATTRACTION. JOSH BILLINGS' NEW BOOK, ILLUSTRATED BY THOMAS NAST, Is sold only by subscription...577 bytes (1,223 words) - 16:27, 13 August 2022
- The Cambridge History of American Literature/Book II/Chapter XIX (section § 13. Shaw: “Josh Billings”.)Mark Twain, and as a writer of easy, fertile monologue he anticipated “Josh Billings,” and “Artemus Ward,” two of his most famous successors. For the present...27 KB (4,168 words) - 19:48, 19 November 2023
- seen. He delivered Mercutio's witty jibes in a drawl suggestive of Josh Billings and unloaded the Queen Mab speech painfully like a wagonful of bricks...311 bytes (1,204 words) - 07:49, 23 December 2021
- courteously; but I should know it for a—well, for a perversion. If the late Josh Billings should rise up and tell me that he wrote Herbert Spencer's philosophies;...8 KB (1,344 words) - 00:45, 30 October 2015
- and “Necessity is the mother of invention;” good old Franklin, the Josh Billings of the eighteenth century—though, sooth to say, the latter transcends...348 bytes (1,501 words) - 20:25, 27 May 2024
- suit-cases or books on them to show occupancy. Over by the window he saw Billings, last year's full-back, sitting at a table with a thin, slight upper classman...297 bytes (2,991 words) - 11:12, 7 February 2017
- I hate to answer the phone," said he. "Never know whether I'm due for a josh or a jolt. What do you think it is this time?" The bell snapped another warning...359 bytes (2,005 words) - 18:19, 25 December 2021
- peculiar charm to the unconventional editorials, and waft a breath of josh Billings into the manuscript pages. But the success of the Zuchthausbluthen soon...14 KB (2,326 words) - 03:14, 17 April 2012
- essays I have read on laughter—not even the famous dissertation by Josh Billings—throw light on how to describe the tantalizing manner of it. He laughs...14 KB (2,637 words) - 17:43, 25 September 2022
- is not proved I do not know, although I am mindful of the saying of Josh Billings that the trouble with a good many persons is that they know so many...400 bytes (3,030 words) - 18:15, 4 July 2021
- grandest pastime ever devised by man could never have been erected. Josh Billings, in writing upon the general subject of Dogs, once said that, in order...296 bytes (3,250 words) - 08:32, 4 December 2014
- its prey,—this is the kind of laff that I luv, and aint afrade ov. josh billings. Most of such humor as existed in Oregon prior to the 70's was apparently...265 bytes (3,562 words) - 18:51, 22 June 2022
- phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers — else would “Josh Billings” be at the head of literature; — but in the number of passages that...97 bytes (4,393 words) - 21:23, 18 August 2021