Frank Connor look the news stoically and, except for a sudden and nearly unnoticed grimace, with no outward show of emotion.

Short of actual actorfics (which don't seem to have reared their ugly heads mych recently), now & in the past, most references I've noticed tend to be harmless humourous little injokes in which, say, M or S discovers an old magazine in which the other appears in an embarassing photo identical to one of DD or GA's.

Left her in her tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort; swallowed his vows whole

It was a curious sort of a feast, I reflected, in appearance indeed, an entertainment of the Barmecide stamp, for there was absolutely nothing to eat.