Word: cherubically
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...been taken from his "salubrious employment as Minister of Health and forced to don the panoply of Mars," Mr. Churchill cracked that Mr. Chamberlain was trying to solve the air problems by "putting a round peg in a square hole." The House roared with laughter. Sir Kingsley, called "Cherub" by his friends, is as round-bellied as Mr. Churchill himself...
...hatch all this out of the innocuous King's Speech, the technical maneuver was employed of having that cherub-faced Tory fire-eater Mr. Winston (''Winnie") Churchill propose an amendment in language which in fact was a polemic. Clarioned "Winnie" Churchill: "The great new fact that is riveting the attention of every country in Europe and the world is that Germany is rearming!" He estimated that within a year the military air force of the Fatherland-which is forbidden to have any such air force by the Treaty of Versailles-would equal Britain...
...Chester-fleldian New York. They contrive to outwit the urbane, unctious continental-mannered dandy, using humorous, embarrassing and patriotic devices. The play winds up with an oration by the Colonel upholding the independence and superiority of the good old United States. Good scene: the bumpkin servant attempting to gain cherub in consequences from a servant girl...
...Jake Wirth's. The gentleman looked at his watch, walked up to a man carrying a ladder and asked him where the theatre was. "I don't know: I don't know anything," he replied. Unfortunately there were no moving picture producers on Stuart Street or the unknown cherub-faced moron would have had a free trip to Hollywood, and an exetic office withing which he could fabricate better movies; the idea is not facetious. Any child would have been ingenious enough to have concocted a better movie than "The Mystery of the Wax Museum," or it would at least...
...fill the book with reprints of 50-year-old drawings and text. The cover is a dainty color-photograph of a group modelled in soap by Lester Gaba-a girl of the iSSo's and' a modern girl (platinum blonde) raising goblets to the famed Life cherub. The body of the magazine looks like a normal current issue with these exceptions: Frontispiece is a reproduction of the first cover, drawn by Artist Mitchell-a pen-&-ink sketch showing Father Time fiddling while two exceedingly fat cherubs dance together between the letters of LIFE, the whole against an elysian...