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# GKC Wednesday
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/32800/
- Published: 2014-06-04T06:36:52.000Z
- Updated: 2014-06-04T06:36:52.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

**Background**: When I was the editor of *[Gilbert Magazine](http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)*, I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a file full of Chesterton ancedotes. They were idiosyncratic, historical, and Chestertonian. He gave me permission to use them here. I hope y'all find them as interesting as I have over the years. Most of them have never been published.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Chesterton-Mug-235x300.jpg "Chesterton Mug")

Chesterton Short(s)

In his *Illustrated London News* essay for 7/27/07 (collected as "On Political Secrecy" in *All Things Considered* \[1908\]), Chesterton asserts that "Mystery stories are very popular, especially when sold at sixpence." According to William L. DeAndrea, giving the *Oxford English Dictionary* as his source, this was the first use of the phrase "Mystery Story" in print. \[Andrea, *Encyclopedia Mysteriosa*, Prentice Hall, 1994, p. 62.\] We note, in passing, that the *OED* also mistakenly credits Chesterton as the first, in 1911, to use "vamp" ("seductress") in public print.