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Artemus Ward

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Noun1.Artemus WardArtemus Ward - United States writer of humorous tales of an itinerant showman (1834-1867)

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Artemus Ward [a popular nineteenth-century American humorist 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.
On stage, he quickly eclipsed Artemus Ward, the most popular wit of the day.
Among her many literary acquaintances were Dickens, Rossetti, Swinburne, Dumas, Whitman, Twain, Joaquin Miller, Artemus Ward, Charles Stoddard, George Sand, Charles Reade, Henry Ward Beecher, and Dan de Quille.
 
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