Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Viscount Knebworth, Oxford, son of the Earl of Lytton, knocked out his London University opponent in a welterweight competition. This was taken to prove that the young peerage is not entirely useless...
...Swaraj leader, who was asked by Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal to form a ministry (TIME, Dec. 24), declined that invitation. His reasons were that the people of India cannot offer willing cooperation until the present system of government is changed. He thought it 'dishonorable to accept office and then carry on the Swaraj policy of noncooperation...
...success of the Swaraj in Bengal caused the resignation of the Legislative Council of the Bengal Government. Lord Lytton, Governor of Bengal, invited C. R. Das to form a ministry...
...book India in World Politics,† apart from comment on the British Raj which is neither equitable, honest nor impartial, sums up compendiously the aspiration of the Swaraj. It is not to be wondered at that the London Daily Telegraph, alluding to the action of Lord Lytton, said that "the event will doubtless be noted by the future historian as a landmark in the annals of the Indian peoples...
Another London editor is John St. Loe Strachey (not to be confused with Giles Lytton Strachey, author of Queen Victoria, etc.) Mr. Strachey is a son of Sir Edward Strachey. He was graduated from Oxford before entering journalism. He has been editor of The Cornhill Magazine (founded by Thackeray), and at present is editor of The Spectator (London). In politics he is a Conservative. There is no danger of his being ousted from his post; he is proprietor as well as editor of his paper...