Chesterton
G(ilbert) K(eith), 1874–1936, English essayist, critic, and novelist.
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It means Paine, Thoreau, Emerson, Chesterton, Mencken, Orwell.
The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core | Charles Upton Sahm | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA little gospel here, a little Chesterton there, a little waistcoat here.
And now I wonder, can you really translate G.K. Chesterton into Kannada?
Why I’ve Learned Many Languages by Aravind Adiga | Aravind Adiga | February 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI found her, as Shaw found Chesterton, “to sometimes be at his best when you disagreed with him.”
The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, by G.K. Chesterton—A nightmare all right: lurid, screwball, and grotesque.
Chesterton pounced upon the half-buried matchbox, and in a panic lest he might again lose it, thrust it inside his tunic.
A Charmed Life | Richard Harding DavisOur writers, with a few notable exceptions, such as Mr. Gilbert Chesterton and Mr. Wells, have seldom risen above trite truisms.
German Problems and Personalities | Charles SaroleaOn the Huntingdon side is the village of Chesterton (English).
Opuscula | Robert Gordon LathamOr had he been reading Chesterton and was he but striving to present in his own personality a futurists effect of upside-downness?
Nothing But the Truth | Frederic S. IshamThough Mr. Chesterton turned the pages of notes as he spoke, he could not be said to have read his lecture.
Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday
British Dictionary definitions for Chesterton
/ (ˈtʃɛstətən) /
G (ilbert) K (eith). 1874–1936, English essayist, novelist, poet, and critic
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