Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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FIGGIS (Darrell) Vision of Life, with introduction by Chesterton...
...Spectator nominates a Worst Book of the Month: Chaucer, by G. K. Chesterton; inaugurates an English Men of Letters Series by reprinting from the London Daily Mail an advertisement written by D. B. Wyndham Lewis. Excerpt: ''Every time a fairy sneezes, a new Lyons' Swiss Roll is born, and every time a fairy trips over a bluebell, his remark breaks into a million pieces. Some of them turn into Nippys. . . . The jam is very whimsy and is made of fruit which has been peeped at by rabbits very early in the morning...
...editor of The New Age from 1907 to 1922 he was considered England's best by not a few for not a few reasons. Such prestige did his magazine have, so much literary loyalty did its editor inspire, that literati contributed mostly without pay, among them Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Wyndham Lewis. Editor Orage's special genius lay in discovering new writers, helping them develop themselves. Over 40 famed writers-including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, the Brothers Powys, Rebecca West, Storm Jameson-got their start in his paper...
...Thomas Jefferson was a better man than Alexander Hamilton. . . . The fearless one will eventually come out against the extravagance of Grant's second administration. ... A primer for voters might well begin with the injunction 'Never trust a quoter.' ... I found:-'This reminds me of what Chesterton Keenly remarked. . . . Abraham Lincoln could say today. ... As Woodrow Wilson so wisely put it. ... I like Andrew Jackson's blunt statement that.' ... A careful tally reveals the following extracts: Woodrow Wilson, two; Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, two and G. K. Chesterton. . . . I should have...
...writers who can monkey with fantasy without getting just too cute for words. Inimitable Max Beerbohm managed it; some still think Sir James Matthew Barrie, Alan Alexander Milne. Christopher Morley have made surprisingly few errors. Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment. Not that Author Marshall cannot be very sharp on occasion, but, like the latter-day Chesterton, he is sharp only with non-Catholic things...