Word: strachey
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...characteristic of the late period of prosperity was the fashion for hostile biographies of the great figures of American History, a fashion which virtually ended with the publication of Edgar Lee Master's "Lincoln the Man", and the death of Lytton Strachey. It is significant that the recent trend has been toward a harsh exposure of the foremost American capitalists, as though in vicarious revenge for the collapse which their system has suffered. The figures who were cynically endured in their decade of triumph are savagely caricatured today. Thus J. M. Leonard in "The Tragedy of Henry Ford" just published...
...Lytton Strachey...
...Boston City Hospital. He was studying the relation to cancer of certain fats called lipoids. In transferring a cyanide solution, some, it is presumed, dropped on his hand, was later wiped off on his mouth. He was found unconscious in a corridor, died an hour later. Died. Giles Lytton Strachey, 51, biographer (Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth and Essex, Portraits in Miniature); of ulcerative colitis; in Inkpen, Berkshire, England. Born to a world of letters, he dallied with, poetry at Trinity College, Cambridge, then sharpened his phrases for several years on French literature, to which he devoted his first...
...Seated at dinner beside a young, twittering debutante, he ate three courses without speaking. She, awed by her famed companion, finally nerved herself to ask, "What do you consider the most important thing in life, Mr. Strachey?" From behind the red bush of his beard came the high, squeaky chirp, "Passion...
...Lytton Strachey's death has robbed literature of a talented witty pen at a time when there is much need of such a pen, for the field which he developed is being invaded by a host of catch penny writers. The loss of his adroit penetration and his aloof irony is only compensated by the literary legacy which he has left to his colleagues...