I have never made an intentional show of those puritanic influences; I have striven rather to hide them from the contempt of my lighter-hearted companions; but a sagacious old stage-Strutter once held up my overreligious ancestors as the cause of my failure to catch the subtle art of a high grade of work.
"Bolanyo"
Opie Percival Read
So hale a Strutter as Aladdin could not lack for bonamies.
"A Christmas Garland"
Max Beerbohm
Game was First Lord of the Admiralty, Wibberly, War Secretary, Ashley, Home Secretary, and Strutter, a comparatively obscure boy, Premier.
"The Willoughby Captains"
Talbot Baines Reed