Word: cherubic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...braved double vengeance, so the Vagabond hoped, with his crass "Don't you think. . ." A sole invasion, perhaps. But no. There was the seedy individual who whined it down his long spectacle bestridden nose; there was the impeccable curlyhead, doubtless a Freshman, who wheedled; there was the lumpy cherub who peeped. The pack...
...plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came out red. Next month's cover has been modelled by Tony Sarg, famed marionette maker. It is a figure of Life's symbolic cherub, shouldering a football nearly as big as himself...
...dear, no," chirps the cherub. "Violets...
...three new players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank Shields, im- mensely tall, convivial and handsome, Roxbury graduate; Sidney Wood, a yellow-haired, wiry, California youth, with a delicate physique but strong wrists and forearms; and Clifford Sutler, a cherub-faced collegian from New Orleans, with self-consciously graceful but effective ground strokes...
...vary, however slightly, the frayed formula for underworld pictures, Warner Brothers stumbled into the environment of illegal gambling, a field so fertile it is hard to see how it had hitherto been neglected. Nick is played by Edward G. Robinson, an actor with the face of a depraved cherub and a voice which makes everything he says seem violently profane. In Smart Money he does again several of the things he did in Little Caesar but not so many that the role is repetitious. His pal, who dies after Nick has hit him for suggesting that his last bad blonde...