Word: lytton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victoria's Heir, a life of Edward VII, is almost worthy to be a sequel to Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria, for the stuffy, portentous Victorian age seems peculiarly able to inspire some of the best writing of the 20th Century. The late Lytton Strachey's roguish mandarinism seemed gently but fatally borne along on the undertow of a dying civilization. George Dangerfield writes with the desperate blandness of a man who has heard even in the U.S. (where he has resided since 1931) the thud of London's falling walls and the stridency of gutting...
...furthered Japanese imperialist expansion in Manchuria and North China, Yosuke Matsuoka was just the man to explain to the world Japan's case after Japan seized Manchuria in 1931. He was sent as chief delegate to the Plenary Session of the League of Nations, which was considering the Lytton Report on the China-Japan conflict. There he conducted a dramatic rearguard campaign in a series of unconventional, eloquent, unrehearsed speeches in which he dragged in even Christ...
...civil ceremony May 4 in Key West). A onetime actress, she quit the stage in 1924 to wed aging Publisher Edward R. Thomas, inherited a slice of his reputed $27,000,000 fortune when he died in 1926. Since then she has married and divorced Hoover-aide Lytton Gray Ament, Harvard Tackle Charles Hann Jr., Hotelman William M. Magraw...
...father was Sir Leslie Stephen, editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. She was related to Thackeray and such scholarly dynasties as the Darwins, Maitlands, Symondses, Stracheys. James Russell Lowell was her godfather. She married into the Bloomsbury group, which included Critic Bell, Novelist E. M. Forster, Biographer Lytton Strachey, Economist John Maynard Keynes...
...years, a Chicago orchestra has held weekly rehearsals, given public concerts. Only its conductor (George Dasch, of Northwestern University) is a professional musician. Its founder was bass-playing George Lytton, president of the Hub stores. Now an orchestra of 115 Chicagoans, 25 of its players are presidents or vice presidents of businesses. A doctor plays the piccolo, a dentist the trombone, a poultry farmer the trumpet, a onetime steel puddler the oboe. A waiting list of 200 eyes the orchestra hungrily : from the list, new players are chosen when members die or cut too many rehearsals...