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A noticeable and very comic feature is presented in the praises which he has interpolated, when ever any acquaintance of his is referred to. We readily acquiesce, when we are told that Mr. A is a model citizen, and that Mr. B is alike unsurpassed in public and private life; but the latter statement becomes less intensely gratifying when we learn the fact that Mr.
In exasperation he interrupted almost rudely. "It's only this: I I'm strapped." "Strapped?" She knitted her brows over this fresh specimen of American slang. "Flat strapped busted broke on my uppers down and out," he reeled off synonyms without a smile. "I haven't enough money to pay cab-fare across the town " "Oh!" she interpolated, enlightened. " to say nothing of taking us to Chiltern.
The Amory's motored her home in their car; they had to wait for the storm to clear. I had been sleeping the sleep of the just for hours, and never even heard her come in. She'll be dead tired, poor dear, having next to no sleep, and then rushing off like this " "What's wrong with Mr. Pendennis?" I interpolated. "Was the letter from him?" "Why, certainly; who should it be from?
You have meditated cruel and shocking mutilation of this body, giving to the horror-stricken eyes of the frantic widow the mangled and defaced flesh that was once the goodly person of her husband, leaving her to waste her life in vain and terrible speculations as to where and how he encountered this awful death with its so dreadful wounds." "It was for the sake of science," interpolated Dr.
How will it be when it has eight hundred thousand or a million?" "You're quite right," interpolated McKenty. "It will be pretty bad." "Exactly. But what is worse, the cable lines will carry trailers, or single cars, from feeder lines. There won't be single cars waiting at these draws there will be trains, crowded trains.
To add to this the gardener roared out some interpolated English popular songs, which suited Mozart's music just as a pitch-plaster would suit the face of the Venus de' Medici. The whole opera was, moreover, arranged by a certain Mr. Bishop; that is, adapted to English ears by means of the most tasteless and shocking alterations.
It is true that several even of the new Attic poets probably needed no accession to their coarseness; pieces like the -Asinaria- of Plautus cannot owe their unsurpassed dulness and vulgarity solely to the translator. Nevertheless coarse incidents so prevail in the Roman comedy, that the translators must either have interpolated them or at least have made a very one-sided selection.
"I should like the Senator," interpolated Senator Poindexter of Washington, Republican, "so long as he is discussing the action of the pickets, to explain to the Senate whether or not it is the action of the pickets . . . the militant . . . woman's party, that caused the President to change his attitude on the subject.
"It doesn't matter ... whether it was straight ... or ... not ..." He interpolated a whistle which made her add: "What I mean is that out here in the East they don't even like it if a girl's been ENGAGED before." This last strain on his credulity wrung a laugh from Moffatt. "Gee! How'd they expect her fair young life to pass?
No scholar accepts the theory about Poggio and yet if the passage about Christ is to be got rid of, this is the better way of the two; for there is nothing to countenance the view that the chapter is interpolated, or to explain when or by whom it was done the wish is father to the thought.
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