Word: pietist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country in France, Spain, Turkey, Geneva. Persia, Germany. In 1929, unable to contain himself any longer, he resigned, joined forces with the "Bloomsbury Group" (John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, the late Lytton Strachey), took to ink. His first books were biographies of Tennyson, Byron, Swinburne, Verlaine. No mere filial pietist, he wrote a biography of his father that might stand as a monument to the "old" diplomacy...