Word: multiformity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors have made research on Character* They are headmasters of New England private schools. Their quarry is elusive, ideal, multiform. Like sensible men, each author has conducted that part of the work for which he is specially qualified. By this means a scheme of education for the modern boy is outlined thoroughly, authoritatively, in six chapters. The book recommends itself highly to parents and pedagogs...
...Army [in England] . . ." Philosophically, Mr. Howells was a benevolent realist; economically, a Utopian. His humor was courtly; and though others have thought that it sometimes trailed off into tenuous banality, Mr. Firkins will not admit a fault here. He calls it "irony of the salon." The Howells whimsy was multiform and pervasive, given to grotesque impersonations and rollicking image-jugglery...