Crossword-Solution: TEDDER 6 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Tedder, the Secretary, and an intimate friend of Burton's, tells me that "He would work at the round table in the library for hours and hours--with nothing for refreshment except a cup of coffee and a box of snuff, which always stood at his side;" and that he was rarely without a heavy stick with a whistle at one end and a spike at the other--the spike being to keep away dogs when he was travelling in hot countries.

Henry Richard Tedder, librarian at the Athenaeum from 1874.] [Footnote 265: Burton, who was himself always having disputes with cab-drivers and everybody else, probably sympathised with Mrs.

The timothy stalk is like a file; the rye straw is glazed with flint; the grasshoppers snap sharply as they fly up in front of you; the bird-songs have ceased; the ground crackles under foot; the eye of day is brassy and merciless; and in harmony with all these things is the rattle of the mower and the hay-tedder.

Admiral Cunningham, General Alexander and Sir Marshal Tedder have been towers of strength in handling the complex details of naval and ground and air activities.

Art and Usefulness Tedder, the Librarian of the Athenæum, said to me when I told him (I have only seen him twice) what poor success my books had met with: “Yes, but you have made the great mistake of being useful.” This, for the moment, displeased me, for I know that I have always tried to make my work useful and should not care about doing it at all unless I believed it to subserve use more or less directly.