Word: nonpareil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof perceptibly. The temptation is to write reams about Balieff; his explanation that since the audience did not understand Italian, "La Grande Opera Italiana" would have to be sung in Russian...
Although a better fighting man than Wilson, Greb is not in the class with his illustrious predecessors in the middleweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil (his international reputation in 1884-1891 persisted so strongly that the present heavyweight champion adopted his name), Tommy Ryan, Kid McCoy, Stanley Ketchel have held the title. So great was their skill that the heavyweight championship alone overshadowed the middleweight in national interest. Since Ketchels murder 13 years ago the middleweight class has been distinguished only by its consistent mediocrity...
...directory is found graven, whittled, carved, and scratched on the desks in Sever. Multitudinous are the names it includes and of diverse shapes and characters: names done in Slavic, Greek, Semitic names ranging from the tiny nonpareil to the enormous two line Great Primer or even to the Canon. The owner's personality is revealed by the names, for if his name be whittled in squat fat little letters, then must his soul be squat and fat, and if his name be done in dignified and stately capitals, must his should be dignified and stately...
...Lampy is plastering Mr. Laski solely because of his reddish penchants, then Lampy is violating the first law for squelching the "Sheviki. For the Reds love red headlines and thrive on them. And conversely they shrivel and die on a diet of agate and nonpareil type. Why put the Harvard Red in larger type than the Harvard Crimson...