Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Virgin. The strange affection which persisted between Queen Elizabeth and her favorite, Robert Devereux. Earl of Essex, has been subjected to speculation by innumerable historians and, more recently, by the imaginative Lytton Strachey. Theirs was a relation which would in all probability have taxed the analytic powers of a Shakespeare or a Freud. The latest ambitious analyst is Playwright Harry Wagstaff Gribble, one-time associate of Christopher Morley in Hoboken theatrical enterprises (TIME, March 25, 1929). Playwright Gribble has examined several old dramas on the theme, has evolved his own explanation of its mysteries...
...thing that is usually taken on the road. There is one scene in the King's garden that is quite effective and is used by Mr. Hampden to the heights of its possibilities. In fact the whole performance was extremely entertaining and fulfilled the potentialities of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's play...
Graves had great sympathy for conscientious objectors. Lytton Strachey, says Graves, was one, and when he was called for examination, chose to stand on his scruples rather than his obvious physical disability. When asked: "What would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" he replied, "with an air of noble virtue: 'I would try to get between them...