Word: cherubims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...tuneful nonsense combine to make of Shirley Temple's "Captain January" a truly delightful morsel. Miss Temple is a sufficiently important national figure to have given rise to some pretty rabid opinion, both pro and con. At times perhaps there is a little too much of the demonstrative cherubim about her. There might even be some basis for the allegations that she is losing her figure. But when people start calling her a major menace, just put them down as being a little too emotional about their unemotionalism...
Sure are pious Austrians that an exceptionally righteous Chancellor will be found in Heaven at no great distance from Jehovah's Throne, and they know of no dead Chancellor more righteous than the late Engelbert Dollfuss who was just the right size to sit beside a cherubim. Last week the Austrian Government of deeply pious Chancellor Dr. Kurt Schuschnigg cast up their eyes to Heaven and declared they were taking a momentous step which they felt would please departed Dollfuss. This step was to ask Austria's hand-picked and subservient State Council to restore over 50,000,000 schillings...
...potency of the Watch and Ward Society of New England need be no cause for alarm. Chaste virtue will still be the essential characteristic of service of the Muses along the banks of the Charles so long as Boston's morals are in the hands of those guardian cherubim, Stan White and Mike Crowley. --New York Herald-Tribune...