Word: paragone
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...world's most beloved cinema actors earns less than $50 a week. That miserable retainer not only has to support himself in the extravagant style to which Hollywood is accustomed, but also has to feed, clothe and house his three adopted nephews. This underpaid box-office paragon: Donald Duck...
...Senate passed a bill last week which 1) made sense, 2) overjoyed a lot of people (and one pint-sized algebra teacher), 3) cost a mere $20,000,000. This sensational measure, which the House is expected to approve speedily, aroused no controversy at all. The paragon bill simply permitted the U.S. to pay two-thirds of the construction cost of unfinished sections of the Inter-American Highway between Mexico and Panama. The Governments of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama will pay the other third...
...united in the defense of our homes against known Communists and their dupes, who have threatened us and are still threatening us. We need this or a similar organization just as laboring men needed their unions-to protect ourselves against injustice. Not every labor leader is a paragon of justice, any more than every employer is a Simon Legree. Our association believes in working through law enforcement agencies, and that the laws relative to assault, battery, destruction of property, and violence of all other kinds should apply equally to everybody, including labor goons as well as all others who break...
...indications came from the White House that the President had found his paragon, it dawned on some Republicans last week that at last they had an Issue. For seven years, while the New Deal juggernaut squnched over the political battlefield, the G. O. P. had vainly whipped up little issues, had vainly sought an issue that would stand up under fire. The G. O. P. popgun fusillade was futile, their cannons fired only blanks, their bombers dropped duds or boomerangs...
Again Miss Paris invades the Harvard scene! This time beauteous Andree Lorain of the Folies Bergere sought the paragon of Harvard Masculinity and found it in a contest at the Pi Eta Club...