Word: smollett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scene in Shanghai's International Settlement, every effort to dissuade the Japanese from celebrating their victory with a boastful parade was made, meanwhile, by British Brigadier Alexander Telfer-Smollett and the U. S. Marines' Brigadier General John C. Beaumont. After they had twice protested in vain to the Japanese, a high U. S. official, lacking in Shanghai the detached perspective of London, cried: "If the Chinese fire a single shot, God knows what will happen! To hold such a procession at such a time is to invite disaster...
...British flagship in Shanghai waters should be sunk, or if General Telfer-Smollett or Admiral Yarnell should be killed, it might mean more to staggering China than the Nine-Power Conference which meets at Brussels next week. Japan last week refused to attend, and so did Germany. Japanese took the conduct of General Telfer-Smollett as proving this up to the hilt, claimed to have found in the captured Alamo quantities of "fresh food which could only have been smuggled in from the British." Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa this week was so boiling mad on his flagship at Shanghai that...
...drily added, "--like his novels should have died too." Richardson was supposed to be pathetic, but if Mr. Chandler couldn't be more pathetic than that guy, he'd quit. But that virtuoso of unnatural virtue has been effectively laid low, and today we hear about Tobias (Smelfungus) Smollett, the good-natured ship's surgeon who was exhilaratingly picaresque both in his life and in his heroes, and Laurence Sterne, the scurrilous curate who poured his irregular soul into the shockingly irregular Tristram Shandy...
...Smollett and Sterne," Professor Greenough, Sever...