Word: manifoldness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...male reporters, humorists, critics there is only one Mrs. Reporter Adams, one Anita ('Blondes') Loos, one Irita Van Doran [of 'Books' in the New York Herald-Tribune], And how fine it would be if these women would get proudly feministic, cleanse the newspapers of their manifold manly vices...
Very rarely men arise with the genius for distinguished public service untouched by the ambition for public recognition. Such a man was John White Hallowell '01. His death in the very midst of manifold activities in the service of Harvard and the nation is a great personal loss. It is, however, the peculiar good fortune of humanity that the work and influence of a man blessed with purity of motives, strength of purpose, and clarity of vision, remain and grow stronger after he has passed away...
Sympathy is due Mr. Tunney why should he be prevented from capitalizing his fame? Others have had no trouble in performing in front of footlights--and many were less adroit boxers than Gene. There is, of course, a law, but there are manifold ways, of avoiding it: wearing evening clothes over boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there...
...change in the voters themselves. And one of the most logical reasons for such an alteration is the fact that the voters have been informed, through the expose of the political scandals that all is not well with the ballot box, and that the Probabilities of corruption are manifold. There fore the desire to bring about a plausible amount of integrity in public office has drawn voters to the polls who have no interest other than to see capable and, as far as possible, honest men as their representatives. The result may be a repetition of former grafts...
...first lecture of the series which Gilbert Murray is delivering as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has been given and, thus, there is officially attached to Harvard University with its manifold heritages of custom and convention--a new tradition. For no doubt can exist as to the future of this greatest gift of one who was an ever generous alumnus of Harvard College Year after year, men who have established a round claim to literary accomplishment of that kind most nearly approaching Longinus' definition of the sublime, will give of their personality their particular genius, to the often stressed...