Word: cherubimic
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...chance of 'breaking through' and asserting itself. Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...
Russian Fair (Don Cossack Chorus Serge Jaroff conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). The Cossacks sound, as required, like a chorus of cherubim or a convention of harmonizing tobacco auctioneers. Performance: good...
...Madonnas bore no resemblance to the Jewish Mary. Manet said crudely: "Raphael turns my stomach." In the 20th Century Stark Young, standing in the solemn little chapel in the Dresden Museum before Raphael's Sistine Madonna, could say only: ". . . Fundamentally dull. ... In color it is stupid. . . . The cherubim faces are downright ugly, the infant Jesus equally...
...bright spring day such a pretty young cherubim was perched on the top of a fence in the vicinity of Kirkland House, quietly cycing the passing stragglers on their way to nine o'clock classes. Suddenly she squealed with childish delight, and then quickly stifled her cry for fear of being heard and seen. Hunching her shoulders and crouching like an adventurous puppy waiting to pounce upon a mouse, she cautiously watched a tall, scrawny human being ambulate down the side-walk toward her. Indeed, the prospective victim-- for victim she intended him to be--was worthy of attack...
Notable, too, is Editor White's intellectual candor: "The temperamental contrast of the parties indicates that Roosevelt is leading his star-eyed cherubim panting into their millennium, while Landon, occasionally jabbing an elbow in the ribs of the Union League boys and with a come-hither grin for agriculture and industry, is content to go inching along to the Republican promised land. . . . Both conventions were similar, indeed all political conventions are like some vast Indian powwow, a ghost dance making mystic political medicine. ... It is the only voodoo we have in this country-tom-toms, brass cymbals, horns, raucous...