Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four times the planes circled and dived, the machine guns hammering savagely. On the fifth dive, one plane fell at the rowboat. Its machine gun lashed the little craft with a whip of lead. One of the girls, Jean Chesterton, 17, fell dead, shot through. Her sister grabbed the oars, splashed frantically shoreward...
...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...
...literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays, not even Trap Doors." This, sworn on the oath "as you hope to increase your sales," is part of the ritual of the Detection Club, devised by such members as Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, G. K. Chesterton. Year ago appeared The Floating Admiral, joint production of 13 members, a chapter by each. But most of the infrequent and irregular meetings are given over to pleasant shop talk, the hilarious initiation of new members...
...SURVEY-G. K. Chesterton-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Vigorous essays by the spryest fat man now writing...
...would be very dull to insist on further proof of the patent greatness of Bernard Shaw. Almost alone of our contemporaries, he has had a divine consistency. One may, like Mr. Chesterton, disapprove of his principles, but he cannot trap Mr. Shaw into applying those principles falsely. A brave regularity in an unpopular position is always an admirable thing, but Mr. Shaw has made it inspiring and pleasant also. He may be, as Lenin said "a good man fallen among Fabians," but he is certainly not as Mr. McCabe once charged so ineptly "quite as entertainer." For to entertain merely...