Word: paragone
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...Paragon's Job. But there was hope. Old Marshal Pietro Badoglio belatedly consulted southern Italy's six anti-Fascist parties, gave them seven of 13 cabinet portfolios in a broadened government. The cleanup of known Fascists, at first very slow, had been speeded up (total ousted to date: 820). The AMG in Italy, largely staffed by British and U.S. businessmen with no nose for Fascists, had been absorbed by the better-run Allied Control Commission under British Lieut. General Mason-Macfarlane. In particular, an Italian-American from New York had brought to bear a great deal of political...
...when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer and the coming man of British politics, his young daughters came home for a holiday and brought along their favorite schoolteacher, Miss Frances Louise Stevenson. The entire family was charmed with the 23-year-old girl, thought her a paragon of intelligence, efficiency and wholesome good looks...
...soldier to divorce himself from the ideals for which he is fighting and become simply a destructive machine may be a paragon of military discipline, but it is not the attitude which will help construct a world in which such conflicts as the present one may be avoided...
Somewhere in the Southwest Pacific white-haired Master Gunnery Sergeant Lou Diamond read his citation: ". . . outstanding performance of duty on Tulagi and Guadalcanal ... an ideal Marine." In Washington the Marine Corps proudly released the record of its paragon, already famed (TIME, Feb. 22) for the history his mortar crew made in the Solomons...
Thrills at Paragon Park and sunburns at the beach await those going to Nantasket with the Outing Club all day Saturday. On Sunday all members of the University are invited to see the Puritan Hub city from a horse drawn omnibus. Inquiries about these trips should be made at the Summer School Office, Wadsworth...