Word: chesterbelloc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chesterton's resistance to the common confusion of greatness with bigness and worldly importance was shared by his brilliant older friend, Historian Hilaire Belloc. Bernard Shaw transformed the two men into a single mythical creature called "The Chesterbelloc"-intellectual Siamese twins who waged furious war against those who preferred a recklessly expanding future to a return to a smaller, intenser way of life. The Chesterbelloc opposed votes for women. "Twenty million young women," wrote Chesterton. "rose to their feet with the cry We will not be dictated to: and proceeded to become stenographers...
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