Word: cherubic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coal Is Trump. Of course such ringing blarney was not the only trump in the hand of Privy Seal Jim (one of the best bridge players in London and always for highest stakes). His long suit was a scheme which he privately unfolded to that shrewd though cherub-faced statesman Rt. Hon. William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister in Canada...
Smartest Parisians of the ċercle du Ritz Bar were titillated and intrigued, last week, by news from Manhattan that General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt seemed finally reconciled not only with their lanky ex-publisher son Cornelius Jr., but also with their cherub-faced and rumpus-raising nephew Erskine Gwynne...
McLarnin-McGraw. James McLarnin, lightweight who has a cherub's face and wears a harp on his bathrobe, who knocked out Sid Terris with one punch but who couldn't lay a glove on Champion Samuel Mandell, feinted with his left last week in Madison Square Garden, then crossed his right to the retreating but tough chin of Phillip McGraw, lightweight from Marathon, Greece, knocking him through the ropes into the lap of one of the judges. McGraw climbed back, was knocked down three times more, after which, amid cries of "Stop it," Referee Dorman lifted Mc-Larnin...
...Rollin Kirby, acute cartoonist of the astute New York World, drew a picture of the Primary School, a one-room structure flying the U. S. flag. Out into the road, in sailor hat, buster brown collar, short trousers and socks, came a fattish cherub waving his report card at an old gentleman labelled G. 0. P. The cartoon was entitled: "Look, Daddy!" The cherub was labelled Hoover. The report card said...
When John William Davis, technical present-day head of the Democratic Party by virtue of his 1924 nomination, was a smiling cherub in a baby-basket at Clarksburg, West Va., another young male of that village was already romping lustily in the pantalettes of the period and beginning to play "soldiers." It was just after the Civil War, a martial moment. Young Guy Despard Goff, six years John Davis's senior, was sent to Kenyon Military Academy, up at Gambier, Ohio. Later he went to Harvard and became a lawyer, practicing in Boston first, then Milwaukee. Perhaps he wished...