Word: paragone
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America's great moral paragon, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, has again leaped to the front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true...
Starting Thursday at the University is that much talked about picture, "Flying Down to Rio". While not exactly the paragon that the press agents would have one believe, it nevertheless is notable for the presence of Fred Astaire and several good tunes, the best of which is that lecherous importation from South America, "La Carioca." This is the first time that Mr. Astaire has been given a chance to display his considerable talents, having for some inexplicable reason been relegated to a minor part in "Dancing Lady." At any rate, his insouciant dancing and impudent acting are now fully revealed...
...Depression paragon is National Steel -only major steel company able to keep its plants running profitably throughout the dark days. Its presiding genius is Ernest Tener Weir who also chairmans subsidiary Weirton Steel of Weirton, W. Va. Last week white-crested Founder Weir got a sizzling telegram from NRAdministrator Johnson: ''You are about to commit a deliberate violation of Federal laws and ... if you do so, I shall request the Attorney General to proceed against you immediately." Founder Weir proceeded to commit the "violation," then settled down in his Pittsburgh home to read (for the lost time...
...these reasons one may well wish that the habit be continued, even though its paragon pass into limbo. It may be charged with having an anaesthetic tendency; a Marxist might even call it an opiate of the upper classes. But from this comes its virtue of being harmless, its saving grace; deans, parents, all thinking people can say of it, as they say of the abolition of religion, what can take its place to keep people out of mischief? How right they...
...obtain diversification in their investment, to obtain a road whose traffic, unlike that of the eastern roads, is not largely dependent upon coal. Today the MOP, in receivership, is the cat & dog of their holdings, while the C. & O., a coal road, which continues to pay dividends, is their paragon...