Word: nonpareil
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...play behind them, might humble the mighty Packers, five-time professional champions and as smooth a machine as football has ever produced. But the next moment the boys from Green Bay (Wis.) began their famed shenanigans. Paced by Cecil Isbell, onetime star of Purdue, and Don Hutson, pass-catching nonpareil, they gave the All-Stars a lesson in air maneuvers. Before the final whistle, the professional champions had scored six touchdowns-five of them by dazzling 30-, 40-, 50-yard forward passes. Just to show the Packers' versatility, Packer Ernie Smith kicked a 34-yard field goal...
Their paradoxical benefactor was Louisiana's Huey Long, who had simpler notions of salvation. From the millions lavished by Huey to endow Louisiana State University with a nonpareil stadium, football team and campus, three ex-Rhodes scholars, named Robert Penn Warren, then 29, Cleanth Brooks Jr., 28, and Charles W. Pipkin, 35, managed in 1935 to get a cut of $10,000 a year for a quarterly review...
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug. Fibber is an incorrigible blowhard, but a game guy to boot. With nonpareil confidence, he tries his luck at anything, from barbering to running an army...
Until last week, U. S. citizens could reasonably assume that Arizona's pentecostal Senator Henry Fountain Ashurst was a nonpareil when it came to dressed-up language. Advices from Oregon showed that it ran in the family...
When curly-haired, 29-year-old Taisto Maki landed in the U. S. two months ago, he was considered the world's distance-running nonpareil. Five times last summer, in his native Finland, he had broken world's records at distances ranging from two miles to 10,000 meters (a little over six miles)-"unbreakable" marks once held by his idol, coach and traveling companion, famed Paavo Nurmi...