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Fantasian Bruce Marshall follows a less gossamer authority, Gilbert Keith Chesterton; but in his hands the Chestertonian whimsy loses its robustiousness, gets all buttered up with sticky sentiment.

From Time Magazine Archive

But they had the main thing�a real Shakespearean robustiousness.

From Time Magazine Archive