Word: lytton
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...Emily Lytton, daughter of Lord Robert Lytton, British Ambassador to France, and granddaughter of Author Bulwer-Lytton, became one of Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...
...Victorian novel, with its passion for brazen scoundrels, innocent girls and rescuing heroes. Such conflicts were not mere fiction; they were the very spice of Victorian life. Emily herself found it hard to decide whether her reaction to her tragedy was "happiness or misery," but her mother, respectable Lady Lytton, was not undecided at all. Wrote Emily: she was "bitterly disappointed that it has all come to nothing and is dying to bring us together again...
...Lytton Strachey . . . looked like a caricature of Christ; a limp cadaverous creature, moving feebly, with lank long brown hair and the beginnings of a beard much paler in color, and spasmodic treble murmurs of a voice utterly weary and contemptuous. Obscene was the character written all over...
...authors from Shakespeare to Shaw have followed everyone with a they. Meredith wrote "Who has he come for?" and Dryden said "these kind of thoughts." Byron was forever using don't with a singular subject ("She will come round-mind if she don't"), and Lytton Strachey apparently never mastered the difference between...
...last year. (Witty Bros, plugged the fact that its Dacron slacks are washable.) Other merchants, using blends of Dacron with wool, rayon, nylon, or other less expensive yarns, offered cheaper suits (John David's at $45, Brooks Brothers at $52, Hart Schaffner & Marx at $69.50). Chicago's Lytton's store had boys' and young men's suits made of a blend of dynel, acetate and rayon, sold 1,000 suits in a fortnight...