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G K Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton (Gilbert Keith Chesterton), 1874-1936, English author. Conservative, even reactionary, in his thinking, Chesterton was a convert (1922) to Roman Catholicism and its champion. He has been called the "prince of paradox" because his dogma is often hidden beneath a light,... Read more |
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G.K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton The English author, journalist, and artist Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) dedicated his extraordinary intellect and creative power to the reform of English government and society. In 1922 he converted to Roman Catholicism and became its champion. On May 29,... Read more |
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Newcastle-under-Lyme
Newcastle-under-Lyme city (1991 pop. 73,208) and district, Staffordshire, W central England, on the Lyme River. Construction materials, apparel, computers, electric motors, and machinery are manufactured in the city. There are ruins of a castle built (12th cent., the "new castle" of the city's... Read more |
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George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts 1817-1904, English painter and sculptor. He studied at the Royal Academy and in Italy, where he developed an enthusiasm for Renaissance painting and Greek sculpture that greatly influenced his work. He executed several decorative commissions, including his large fresco ... Read more |
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Hilaire Belloc
Hilaire Belloc (Joseph Hilaire Pierre Belloc) , 1870-1953, English author, b. France. He became a British subject in 1902, and from 1906 to 1910 was a Liberal member of Parliament for South Salford. Poet, essayist, satirist, and historian, he wrote from the Roman Catholic viewpoint. Among his... Read more |
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Gilbert Foliot
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Revenge
674. Vengeance Absalom kills half-brother, Amnon, for raping sister, Tamar. [O. T.: II Samuel 13:28–29] Acamas Aeneas’s companion; kills Promachus to avenge brother’s murder. [Gk. Lit.: Iliad ] Acarnan and Amphoterus enabled by Zeus to grow to manhood in single day to... Read more |
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Gilbert Emery
Emery, Gilbert, pseudonym of Emery Bemsley Pottle (1875–1945), New York playwright, who graduated from Amherst, served in World War I, and in 1921 wrote his first and most successful play, The Hero. His later plays include Queed (1921), a dramatization of the novel by H.S. Harrison;... Read more |
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Disbelief
184. Disbelief (See also Skepticism.) Capys Trojan who mistrusted Trojan Horse; cautioned against bringing it into the city. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 50] Cassandra no one gave credence to her accurate prophecies of doom. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 51] Gerstein, Kurt anti-Nazi German; nobody... Read more |
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Disguise
189. Disguise Abigail enters nunnery as convert to retrieve money. [Br. Lit.: The Jew of Malta ] Achilles disguised as a woman to avoid conscription. [Gk. Legend: Brewer Handbook, 642 (Lycomedes)] Aspatia disguised as a man, engages a nobleman in a duel and dies of her wounds. [Br.... Read more |
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books: Forgotten classic; Book of the week THE SELECTED WORKS OF GK...
...qualities of "Mr GK Chesterton falling onto a sheet...Wodehouse meant. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a monolith of...pages of ripest GK packed between the...forementioned The Man Who Was Thursday...are the desperate ... |
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Diary
...corpulent figure of GK Chesterton, the novelist...launch of the great man's newspaper (modestly entitled GK's Weekly), there...Kensington Square at which GK's fans will lobby...towards declaring Chesterton "Saint ... |