Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gossip of the week among the publishers includes the interesting item that Lytton Strachey is reported to be considering Queen Elizabeth and her period for his next work. Remembering "Eminent Victorians", we feel constrained to admit our interest and express the hope that the report is not without basis...
With the death of Thomas Hardy the chain connecting the Victorian and modern literary worlds is broken, for he was undoubtedly the strongest remaining link. The contemporary of such literary gods as Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Thackeray, Troilope, Charles Reade, Lytton, Rosetti, Morris, Ruskin, Meredith, and Swinburne, his quiet passing away after a month's illness seems almost an event of some past year, a happening around which the shadows have already closed. For to those readers who have come under the spell of "Far from the Madding Crowd," "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," and "The Return of the Native...
...Chicago Symphony, threatened some weeks ago (TIME, July 25) by the musicians' demand for pay increase, announced that three citizens-Chairman John J. Mitchell of the Illinois Merchants Trust Co., George Lytton and Mrs. Kellog Fairbank-have given the $30,000 symphony fund, of which each musician will receive $10 weekly. Twenty-eight subscription concerts were announced for Fridays and Saturdays, 12 for Tuesday matinees, 16 popular concerts, 12 children's. Conductor Frederick Stock is in command; Maurice Rave, guest conductor...
...Dear Mrs. Coolidge: We are sending you these flowers because we love you," said a letter signed by 200 children of the Salvation Army Home at Lytton Springs, Calif. The flowers were brought from the coast by airplane and were presented by two Washington children, whom Mrs. Coolidge kissed affectionately...
...March is set aside in Niles [Mich.] as 'Have a Baby Week.'" He came in there like a lion one March "before they had horses and boats and when you wanted to go from one town to another, you had to take a train." Graduates of the Lytton Strachey school of informal biography may suspect Mr. Lardner of shoving fun at their alma mater, the way he takes liberties with prominent names and dates in trying to solve the enigma of himself in an intimate way. "The Taylor who was elected President," he says, for instance, "was Zachary...