Word: paragone
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...immediate predecessors. But she was built with 10% more electrical welding on her hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation of more than the usual eight anti-aircraft guns. Other ordnance: nine 8-in. guns in three turrets; eight 5-in. guns...
...flares-but not missing was the public's immediate acclaim. Though ''Mister John" Ringling was too sick to come up from Florida, the opening of his circus on this 50th Anniversary of his and his six dead brothers' entrance into show business was a polychromatic paragon of perfection...
Ancient & honorable is the Society of the Genesee, composed of successful men & women who were born in or near New York's Genesee Valley, or achieved success in the neighborhood.* Once a year they meet & eat in Manhattan to salute a paragon. Meeting & eating last week they saluted President Edward Bausch of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The event gave occasion for children with eyeglasses, students with microscopes, astronomers with telescopes, seafarers with binoculars, photographers with cameras, soldiers with range finders to learn what manner of man made their tools...
...spite of makeup which gives her eyelids a furry look and her old tendency to read her more dramatic lines as though she were giving a schoolroom recital of Elektra, Actress Fontanne manages to be conspicuously charming in a role which is not a paragon of lucidity. Actor Lunt is at all times expertly droll, although his parts in The Guardsman and Reunion In Vienna appear to have permanently endowed him with a Central European accent. Actor Coward, particularly when he is imitating a butler on a telephone and giving an interview to the Press, is, if possible, more suavely...
Unhappily for Paragon Slocum, he picked up a cigaret girl named Lulu Schaeffer one night and fell in love with her over the next morning's toast. He decided that under her comely exterior beat a heart of gold. He made her throw over her job, memorize Shakespeare, dress properly. He got her in the movies. She became "America's Joy Girl." the nation's current epitome of sweetness & light with a dash of innocent fun. Thereupon her creator fell on evil days. Miss Schaeffer spurned his attentions, betrayed him right & left, refused his belated offer...