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...last. Yet there still remain here and there a few people who cherish the toys. Ellen Terry, actress, possesses a little theatre and a collection of the plays from which its scenes derive; Charles Spencer Chaplin, cinema comedian, lightens with one his melancholy hours; G. K. Chesterton, paradoxhund, is said to play with one while thinking out his articles. Many are preserved in Jacobean farmhouses, in Tudor mansions, in dour Scotch castles, in London palaces...
...reason why one of the seven Fellows should not be a Catholic. The whole theory of representative government justifies such a choice. Furthermore, Catholics have been known who possessed great abilities. Governor Smith of New York is no worse governor for being a Catholic, nor is G. K. Chesterton a worse writer because of his religion. No religion contains all the intellect of the world many its members...
Prohibition will be debated at Sheffield and Oxford. At Oxford, the debate will be followed by speeches from G. K. Chesterton, champion British bibulophile, and by Lady Astor, so-called "British Bryan...
...Chesterton has pointed out in his admirable life of the hardly militaristic Saint Francis, there is no essential contradiction between fighting men, and loving them. To believe that there is, however, erroneous as it may be, is not in itself blameworthy. What is fundamentally wrong with the "peace at any price" doctrine is not that it believes warfare inseparable from hatred and condemns both. It is that it refuses us the right to love anything more than peace. To the mass of men this refusal is, in the fullest sense of the word, damnable Nor can those who would decline...
...over to Bernard Shaw's table in the coffee room of his club and seeing the remarkable mess upon which Shaw was browsing, he asked in an alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other, and looking, even in those utterly English surroundings, like a Dutch burgomaster just released from Rembrandt's studio...