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When Mr. Gilbert K. Chesterton and the redoubtable G. B. S. came to words over the relative merits of different types of breakfast foods, they indulged as is their wont, in the discussion of a very serious and vital subject. Mr. Shaw recommended fresh fruits and cereals, which had been demanded by Americans in London, and which contrasted sharply with the traditional British breakfast of bacon and eggs, or some other kind of meat, supported by Mr. Chesterton...
...Americans," said Mr. Chesterton, "sleep in hothouses. When they awake, they must have fruits, and ice-water and alcoholic liquors for their parched throats. Mr. Shaw would be a very intelligent man if he had always eaten bacon and eggs in the morning...
Consequently Messrs, Shaw and Chesterton in arguing about the best breakfast rations displayed the effects of the own very different diets. Mr. Chesterton, being a meat-eater of the first water (if that is possible) contented himself with a rather dogmatic defense, attacking the habits of the Americans of which he probably knows very little--and the undoubted intelligence of Mr. Shaw. The latter vindicated vegetarianism with his usual flashing wit and imagination--and best of all, Americans for once found a satisfactory champion...
...William Randolph Hearst: 'In the Marie Antoinette room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, London, a dinner was given in my honor by two of my husband's editors. Those present included: Arnold Bennet, A S. M. Hutchinson, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Rebecca West, W L George, J. D. Beresford, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Charles G. and Kathleen Norris...
...definite subjects with compulsory investigation and some intelligent though on what men of some intelligent thought on what men of letters have said about the several subjects. A conception, however vague, of the basic facts of life and civilization is better than a vague inkling of Belloc, Walls and Chesterton...