Word: paragone
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...East's self-styled paragon of accuracy of the college dailies had the colossal effrontery to label its sister publication in New Haven a "self-styled 'Liberal Republican' newspaper...
Just for You (Paramount) casts Bing Crosby as a paragon of Broadway show producers. When he is not putting on one smash hit after another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing...
...dynasty of Whites is receding into history. But a terrifying thing is happening. All three are blending, becoming one superman known as simply White, who knew everybody, went everywhere, held every imaginable opinion. When I discuss household problems with Maria, the maid, I am again up against this paragon Senhor White. This fabulous journalist, it appears, liked many fruits for breakfast, no fruits and no eggs, eggs with bacon and four eggs...
...pleasant Edwardian day, that paragon of propriety, Henry James, went down to Sussex to pay a call on G. K. Chesterton. "It was a very stately call," wrote Chesterton, with James all buttoned-up in a frock coat. Suddenly, a terrible bellowing broke out and two unshaven hoboes in workers' "reach-me-downs" burst in. They had walked all the way from Dover after spending their last penny in France, but they had enough strength left to quarrel furiously-"accusing each other of having secretly washed, in violation of an implied contract between tramps." Henry James is said...
...Author Clarence Mulford's original pulp-paper stories, Hoppy had been a ragged, tobacco-chewing, whiskery cowpoke who walked with a bad limp. But Boyd made him a veritable Galahad of the range-a soft-spoken paragon who did not smoke, drink, or kiss girls, who tried to capture the rustlers instead of shooting them, and who always let the villain draw first if gunplay was inevitable...