Word: paragonally
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...manner for which producer Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page) is famed. Peter Hinkle (William Challee), a youth without a brain in his head, wants to become a dentist, gets a part in a film to pay his way to New York. President Phil Mashkin (Gregory Ratoff) of the Paragon Pictures Corp., seeking a way to get rid of Star Mabel Fenton (Hazel Dawn), hits upon the idea of making Peter Hinkle a star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed into new clothes, given a new name ("Buddy" for democracy, "Windsor" for aristocracy...
...Paul Green and Sidney Howard, they are both honest and constructive in their writing, but they can not get beyond the lack of imagination in the American theatre. Even Eugene O'Neill, the paragon of present day critics, is "an unsatisfactory genius." "--it is as an emotionalist, and not as a thinker, that Mr. O'Neill excels. His strength is of the great, raw, shaggy kind that Whitman's has. It is soberer, starker and infinitely more glim. But it is no less torrential, savage as it is, with the same energy, heavy with the same profusion and cumulative...
Wesley was small, dictatorial, sure of himself (Wade calls him a "hard, pertinacious little paragon") but he must have had a certain charm. Literary Tycoon Sam Johnson who knew and liked him once complained: "I hate to meet John Wesley. The dog enchants you with his conversation, and then breaks away to go and visit some old woman. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk...
...paragon of breeding and good form, he was spared the anguish of hearing his daughter Lady Cynthia brightly inform a London audience last week that she had had no time to write a speech because, "Unfortunately my sister [Lady Alexandra Metcalfe] went and had twins...
...discovery of the Whereabouts of the prognosticator extraordinary. The few policemen and detectives who are not making guesses as to the Whereabouts of New York's Justice Crater are looking for the CRIMSON'S Dr. Huey. The editors of the CRIMSON still cling to the hope that the paragon of prophets will turn up in time to make his predictions about the games which open the gridiron season tomorrow. Like all men of genius, the famous Chinese doctor is slightly eccentric. Perhaps, too, he is a little vain, and is planning a spectacular, last-minute entry to Cambridge...