Word: cherubically
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...picked up an old Haig and Haig bottle and sniffed at it absent mindedly. A rude knock on the door shattered his abstraction. He wheeled around to come face-to-face with a brand new cherub of about 17, who set down the bag he was carrying and looked around the room possessively. Vag stifled a snarl. "Are you my roommate?" the Freshman asked, amiably. Vag took the splinter of goal post off the wall, flipped his cigarette into the fireplace and strode out of the room, closing the door behind...
...masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive Woman, The Gypsy with the Basque Drum), so many prancing nymphs and paintings like The Bacchante and the Panther, in which a nude woman holds up a dead bird to a panther ridden by a nude cherub...
...remember him very vividly as a very small boy with curls and a round roly face; whom my young aunts made much of and called the 'cherub,' thereby creating much jealousy in me because I could not aspire to any such name...
...natives of West Africa's Gold Coast love the cinema. Especially do they love films with an African setting in which big Paul Robeson is supported by a small black cherub named Bob Papafio. The son of Big Papafio, an itinerant pugilist who fought himself out in England, Bob was discovered by Actor Robeson and given his first part in Sanders of the River. But Bob Papafio will make no more films for a while. Last week TIME'S resident correspondent in Liberia, Henry B. Cole, told...
Franklin Roosevelt smiled and thanked him. The little rotund, stooped, pink-faced, bulldog-jawed Britisher, his visored cap askew over the remnants of sandy yellow hair that once was red, stood beaming, like a deceptively diffident cherub. The tall, easy-mannered American, with a jaw just as stubborn, stood with his huge shoulders thrown back, his head cocked on one side, as it always is when he meets something new and important...