Word: chesterton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When G.. K. Chesterton first saw the blazing advertising signs along the Great White Way, he commented: "What a wonderful sight for a person who cannot read...
...Marsh the literary great seem to generate no spark. Strangely flat are his reminiscences of Anatole France, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, G. K. Chesterton and A. E. Housman to whom Marsh credits this Regents Board bettering of Wordsworth: First Don: 0 cuckoo, shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice...
...Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...
...least your editor might have taken a tip from Alex Woollcott, who tells in While Rome Burns (1934) the amusing story that when G. K. Chesterton heard of Mr. Shaw's morbid pronouncement, he professed himself willing to substitute for one of the elephants...
...Catholic belief from one of the ablest of U. S. priests, Monsignor Fulton John Sheen (who also instructed Convert Mann). Columnist Broun will be received into the Church late this month. Thereafter he may well become the U. S. equivalent of a famed British convert-the late Gilbert Keith Chesterton, stylist, wit, rough-&-tumble fighter for the Faith...