Word: quiller
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Never," said an eminent professor of English composition in recommending Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's famous essay denouncing jargon. "Never has cheap English been more cleverly shown...
...most successful stories these British authors have given us are in humorous vein. "The Mayor's Dovecote", by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, is an amusing tale, a pleasant revival of human nature in fiction. "Miss Bracegirdle Does Her Duty", by Stacy Aumonier, contains a situation upon which Leonard Merrick might have congratulated himself. This is another story that inevitably suggests a much greater writer; would that Mr. Merrick had put his finger...
...Quiller-Couch, On the Art of Reading...
...literary controversy comparable to that between the Ancients and the Moderns is in the making, with the President of the Wesleyan Conference at London as the champion of prohibition, and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, English novelist, taking the side of the temperate wine-bibbers. The eminent churchman decries the charge that complete abstinence will cut him off "from understanding all that is good to understand in Swift or Shakespeare". Sir Arthur, in reply, presents the total abstainer as imperfectly equipped either to create or appreciate high literature, because "high literature demands total manhood, of which teetotal manhood is obviously...