Word: chesterfieldian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...danger of war, then, did not depend upon whether the Comintern was hidden or open, whether manners at U.N. were rude or Chesterfieldian. It depended upon whether the part of the world which wanted permanent peace would continue to be 1) "more powerful," and 2) "equally vigilant...
...elderly devil named Screwtape, whose letters of instruction have somehow fallen into the hands of C. S. Lewis, Fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College. (Writes Mr. Lewis in the preface to THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS (Macmillan; $1.50): "I have no intention of ex plaining how. . . .") In a series of Chesterfieldian letters, written from the cozy depths of Hell, Screwtape advises his inexperienced nephew Wormwood on the best means of eternally damning the soul of his "patient." The "patient," a young Englishman who is never named, "backslides" into religion, is "rescued" by life among clever agnostics, regains his faith, does...
| 1 |