Word: hotchpotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is not much to choose between men," Maugham says. "They are all a hotchpotch of greatness and littleness, of virtue and vice, of nobility and baseness." Doubting that he is any better or worse than others, he explains his own career in terms of his temperament. His parents died before he was ten, and he was educated by a severe clergyman uncle-he would wake up at night dreaming that his mother was still alive and that he was home again. He was small, shy, sickly, and stammered badly. He confesses to an "instinctive shrinking" from his fellow...