Word: strachey
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...pursued internationally with as much zeal as scientists exert in ascertaining the private life of the paramecium, it is rather exciting to see her come to life upon the stage. Though the authors (Walter Prichard Eaton and David Carb) protest volubly that the play is not a dramatization of Strachey, it is the readers of his book who will be particularly attracted. The play has caught all the quaint charm of the girl who developed retiring domesticity into a regal legend. It was Strachey who popularized the legend in America...
Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic...
...from Mr. Massingham by J. St. Loe Straehey, editor of The Spectator, which used to pose as Liberal-Unionist, but is now distinctly Conservative in tone. Many of The Spectator's die-hard readers took exception to Mr. Massingham's articles, but it was distinctly to Mr. Strachey's credit that he opened the hospitality of The Spectator's pages to such an intellectual, sane and distinguished journalist as Mr. Massingham. On the same score The Christian Science Monitor is to be congratulated in obtaining the services of a well-tried British journalist whose views...
...this innovation Mr. Strachey deliberately cast down his gauntlet to the tradition that a newspaper must give the public what it wants. The Spectator had built up an audience of conservative people, and now these people are served with both Conservatism and Socialism. It is disconcerting to the constant readers of The Spectator, and some of them protest volubly by letter. Mr. Strachey still braves these protestants, and is called a traitor for his pains...
...column The Spectator continues to print Strachey conservatism; in another Massingham Socialism; and in a third, the irate letters which exclaim typically : "Away with such stuff from the columns of The Spectator...