Word: comicstrip
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based on the highly debatable theory that the Celtic character is the most charming and the most comical of human phenomena, His Family Tree is principally a frame for James Barton's elaborate embroideries in brogue, blarney, eye-twin-kling and jig-steps. That an obsolete comicstrip narrative is not actually offensive is due to the skill of Joel Sayre and John Twist who adapted it for the screen. Good shot: Barton's skit of a drunk trying to read a newspaper which ends when he has rolled it helplessly into a soggy ball...
...20th Century husbands ever lay violent hands on their wives the comicstrip researcher will never discover it. By a curious chivalry of newspaper cartooning, neither Jiggs nor any other male may pelt, pummel or kick a female...