Crossword-Solution: STRACHEY
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STRACHEY | anagram | YACHTERS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “STRACHEY”
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| Biographer Lytton ___. | 1 answer |
| English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group | 1 answer |
| Lytton ___, English biographer. | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
TAGAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with STRACHEY (5)
There is evidence enough in Jacques Cartier’s “Voyages to the Rivers of Canada;” and evidence more than enough in Strachey’s “Travaile in Virginia”—to quote only two authorities out of many—to prove that the Red Indians, when the white man first met with them, were, in North and South alike, a diseased, decaying, and, as all their traditions confess, decreasing race.
Tylor had used Strachey's Historie of Travaile (1612), he would have found "a slightly varying copy" of Smith's text of 1632, with Ahone as superior to Okee.
There is no evidence whatever that Strachey had anything to do with this book of 1612, in which there is no mention of Ahone.
This could not be gathered from the dedication to Bacon prefixed to Strachey's MS., for that dedication cannot be earlier that 1618.(3) I now ask leave to discuss the evidence for an early pre-Christian belief in a primal Creator, held by the Indian tribes from Plymouth, in New England, to Roanoke Island, off Southern Virginia.
Smith professes himself "no scholer".(2) On the other hand, Strachey likes to show off his Latin and Greek.
Quotes with STRACHEY (2)
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1960).