Word: strachey
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...popular way to look at politicians is as the knaves of the human deck. But Frederick L. Collins, veteran journalist, has gone out and captured 14 of them in the gubernatorial stage and labeled them Our American Kings. Mr. Collins isn't a Lytton Strachey, but he doesn't aim to be. He went to take notes on the personalities and home life of Governors in their official habitats and he did so with good-natured appreciation...
...Manning was now an old man. . . . The spare and stately form, the head, massive, emaciated, terrible, with the great nose, the glittering eyes, and the mouth drawn back and compressed into the grim rigidities of age, self-mortification, authority. . . ."LYTTON STRACHEY...
...celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...
...demand and the limitation of supply, or, in other words, demand and a certain difficulty of attainment." He goes on to say that on demand, and not on limited supply, can be found the panacea for which the laboring classes search. The significance of this is apparent, and Mr. Strachey brings it out in discussing Labor as a partner of industry; for, as demand is the raison d'être of wealth derived through the medium of Labor, it should govern Labor's attitude to employers, to strikes and to itself. In other words, to borrow Mr. Strachey...
...Strachey's cake. (P. 13.) Waves of the same length...