Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...West (Cicely Isabel Fairfield, now Mrs. Henry Maxwell Andrews), onetime great & good friend to H. G., who once sat at his feet, has since penned some interesting observations of her former master. Wells's attitude to his profession is hardboiled, so sensible you wonder if he can really mean it. Says he: "I have never taken any great pains about writing. I am outside the hierarchy of conscious and deliberate writers altogether. . . . Sir J. C. Squire doubts if I shall 'live' and I cannot say how cordially and unreservedly I agree...
John Benjamin Wesley (1703-91) founded the Methodist Episcopal Church but did not mean to. A conservative and a high Churchman, he lived & died a member of the Church of England. He vehemently inveighed against his followers who left the Anglican fold. But before his death the U. S. Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe...
This versatile and famous Irishman, now in his sixties, came from a poor family. His early ambition to be a painter could not be fulfilled, because it would mean long study in schools and much money to support him. His family could not afford this, and Russell went to work in an accounting office. He was not able to take up painting until he was over forty years...
...Gibbs, who is a member of the literary family headed by Sir Phillip, has written at least one novel better than this present offering. In all honesty, "Chances" in no way comes up to his post-war study, "Labels". That does not mean the story of Tom and Jack Ingle-side is not entertaining reading; because it certainly is way and ahead of most of the light fiction that will be wrapped up in tissue paper and red ribbon this Christmas...
...sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something not very different from what Bugs Moran and Al Capone mean today. And who will blame them...