Is the salesman's soft-shoe appropriate in a time of national mourning?

... is called in to confirm that the murder victim has indeed achieved corpsehood.

So it’s hard not to be amused at Nina L. Khrushcheva’s contortionate attempts to recruit him as a sociopolitical figurehead for the land of his birth in her earnest and urgent “Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics.”

In March 1938, Sir Bernard Reilly, the Governor of Aden, wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies requesting that the restrictions imposed on 'Adenese' seamen in 1935 be reconsidered.