Word: chesterbelloc
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Dates: during 1929-1929
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...Collaborators. G. B. Shaw's theory is that Chesterton and Belloc are not two persons, but one mythological monster, "the Chesterbelloc," a combative, capering elephant. Both write brilliantly, voluminously?history, biography, fiction, indifferent poetry, essays on religion and ethics, essays on morals and manners; both champion ecclesiasticism, traditionalism, medievalism; both revile socialism, woman's suffrage and G. B. Shaw...
Other Mysteries. As if to escape the Chesterbelloc ridicule, Footprints by Kay Cleaver Strahan (Doubleday, Doran, $2) is a detective story with practically no detective. Murder, rope hanging from the window?but no footsteps in the snow: members of the family suspect each other, one even suspects oneself. Ingenious idea, admirably executed...
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