Word: cherubic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Cherub-faced Oscar Ewing, chief pitchman for Harry Truman's national health insurance plan (see MEDICINE), could not contain his enthusiasm over Britain's socialized medicine...
...week for the young. The school year was over almost everywhere; armies of cherub-like little fiends immediately began skinning knees, wading through poison ivy and falling out of trees. The 1949 crop of high school and college graduates walked out into a world that was getting colder for job-hunters all the time...
...Germany, been acclaimed for his music in Britain, France, Holland, Denmark, Italy. He arrived at New York City's International Airport, smiling and confident. Asked his U.S. managers: "Walter, is everything all set? Are you free to go wherever you want?" Burly (6 ft. 3 in., 210 lbs.), cherub-faced Pianist Gieseking beamed: "Everything is set, so far as I know...
...make the cars, the five car-division vice presidents, who are, in effect, big manufacturers on their own. They are: Cadillac's Jack Gordon, 48, crack engine man, who worked ten years on the new Cadillac engine; Chevrolet's W. F. Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac...
...Nathan Hirschberg, a Manhattan attorney, testified in his wife's suit for separation that he used to leave tender notes on her pillow before leaving for work. Sample: "Cherub: Rise and shine. 'Tis a lovely day for a lovely cherub." If he failed to leave a note, said Hirschberg, his wife would cut loose later with "swear words and oaths that would make a seasoned muleskinner envious." Said Cherub: "I remember calling him, nothing worse than a penny-pinching jerk...