Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Naegle, then in Iowa City, received an assignment from Editor Robert Pines of College Humor for a set of pictures on the daily life of a coed. Told to avoid well-photographed University of Iowa, Photographer Naegle journeyed to Drake, interviewed the University's business manager, Ed Lytton. Business Manager Lytton recommended Heloise. She immediately accepted. The pictures were taken in a bed, a shower of the Delta Gamma House, on the campus, in a classroom. As a final shot, Friend Bergmann was without difficulty persuaded to pose with Heloise in his arms...
...refer to Maurice L. Rothschild, directly across State St. from the new Goldblatt super-bargain palace; Henry C. Lytton's Hub, across the other boundary street, Jackson Boulevard; the old Spiegel-Cooper store (now Sears, Roebuck) down the street: the Brothers Mandel on the "world's busiest corner"; the Netcher's Boston Store; Komiss Co., ad infinitum...
...Since Lytton Strachey published his Queen Victoria 15 years ago, that classic portrait of a just and virtuous monarch, first Empress of India, devoted wife and inconsolable widow, has scarcely been challenged by biographers. Readers might feel that Strachey had not told them all that was to be said about Victoria, but they were likely to be convinced, upon finishing his book, that he had told them about all they wanted to hear. In the shadow of that disadvantage Edith Sitwell last week offered a balanced, well-rounded-study of the Queen that included little new information about her, much...
...Author Sitwell's sympathy for the sufferings and struggles of the poor. Together with the artful sketches of the celebrities around the Queen, chapters illuminating the social background form the chief distinction of Victoria of England, throwing light on a side of the sovereign's career that Lytton Strachey neglected...
...Secretary to the First Lord, this sort of job under a minister with a future being the surest leg up in Britain to swift promotion for a smart young politician. Reputedly Hon. Bill attracted Sir Samuel's attention by his energy and gumption as private secretary to Lord Lytton on the commission which went to the Far East, reported on Japan's grab of Manchukuo (TIME...