Word: paragone
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...American Type Founders Co. Gone were the old-fashioned banked and pyramided headlines. Gone was the seven-point body type at which faithful Times readers had squinted for 26 years. New heads were short, simple sentences split up into two or three lines. New body type was eight-point Paragon on nine-point base, a light, readable letter with plenty of space between the lines...
...amiable paragon, strapping, soft-voiced, easy-smiling "Charlie" Taft is a 38-year-old product of his father's public career, his mother's piety, his uncle Horace's Taft School, Yale, the A. E. F. and Cincinnati's Charter movement. At Yale (Class of 1918) he was football tackle, basketball captain, Phi Beta Kappa, winner of the Francis Gordon Brown award for "good scholarship and high manhood." While his classmates were busy getting into officers' training camps, Taft enlisted as a buck private in the Army, got married before sailing for France. Returning...
...Pendleton had announced that she would like to resign, they had weighed 100 candidates, quizzed 1,000 alumnae, to find a woman who combined "intellectual honesty, leadership, tolerance, savoir jalre, sympathetic understanding of youth, vision, and a sense of humor." Satisfied that they had at last discovered such a paragon, Wellesley's trustees asked Oberlin (Ohio) College's Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee to become Ellen Pendleton's successor and Wellesley's seventh president...
Another authoritative psychiatrist, Dr. Lee Wallingford Darrah of Gardner, Mass., wondered if there is a mentally normal person in the whole world. "Can it be," he asked, "that there is no such paragon as the normal person? Many text books do not even list 'normal' in their index. Such definitions as have been given are widely open to criticism and the conclusion is reached that normality is very difficult to find...
...ever gave sharp answers to her betters. Such is not the case. Disappointing as the case may be to child psychologists of certain schools and persons judicious enough to distrust the customary vaporings of cinema fan magazines, Hollywood chatter columnists and professional pressagents, Shirley Temple is actually a peewee paragon who not only obeys her mother, likes her work, rarely cries, is never sick and keeps her dresses clean but even likes raw carrots, eats spinach with enthusiasm and expresses active relish for the taste of castor...