Word: interlards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author's own life. And it is genial and pleasing and filled with the warmth of personalities, great and small. Throughout the author is delightful and humorous. He tells anecdotes and reprints satirical poems of his own and other writers from Punch; and yet he is able to interlard a great deal of sound criticism. With equal case he returns to his childhood and recaptures a naive delight in the verses of the Tailor sisters, two Victorian A. A. Milnes; or describes the sophisticated pleasures of making fun of his contemporaries...
...Henderson is a refreshingly new type among stage sleuths. His criminological methods are a succession of humorous short cuts, and he is bent on saving the audience's time and the taxpayer's money. The conclusion of Monkey is surprising enough, and the late Sam Janney has managed to interlard his melodrama with agreeable comedy.. Officer McSweeney, played by Edward McNamara. the constable of Strictly Dishonorable who said that it just seemed like police-men never took a drink, ably supports Actor Whorf...
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