Word: cherubism
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...brief moment. Former City Councilman Joseph M. Scannell went on trial in Suffolk Superior Court charged with attempted shakedown. The prosecution said he had demanded $3,000 from a man who wanted a license to run a water-taxi service from a Congress Street dock to Logan Airport. Cherub-cheeked Joe, who holds down a $5,200-a-year job as a construction inspector for the Curley-controlled city housing authority, pleaded nolo contendere (I ain't sayin' a word...
Editor Crowther, a green-eyed little man who is cheerful as a cherub, perky as a piggy bank, is a prototype but not a proponent of Union Now: besides his American schooling and travels he has an American wife (and five little Anglo-Americans). During the war, to open another, pocket-sized window on the U.S. to Britons, he also edited a monthly mag-azine, Transatlantic. He is a nonsmoker, heavy eater, and a Chablis drinker...
...wife Brenda strolled along Plymouth's Mill Street. They talked shop with the editor of the weekly Plymouth Review (circ. 2,100), visited a cheese factory, munched Schwaller's hamburgers ("biggest in Wisconsin"). Sighed Chris: "It's wonderful!" Editor Christiansen, a gregarious man with a florid cherub's face and a mockingbird's sense of humor, felt as much at home in Plymouth as he does back home in Holland...
...Useful Hypothesis." Julian Huxley is a nervous and abrupt man with somewhat the same kind of awesome intellect and donnish wit as his younger brother, Aldous (Brave New World).* Julian's tongue hurts as often as it humors; he was once described as "alternately cherub and pickle." In his picklish mood, he often puts people off with a burst of terrifying temper. Some delegates had reservations about picking a man who has professed atheism ("I do not believe in God, because I think the idea has ceased to be a useful hypothesis"), birth control, eugenic mating, state planning...
Hirsch, alias The Professor. Even Tom Ryan, the cherub-faced sexton, had another name-George Lanoway. He had been arrested 19 times, had gone to Sing Sing for a five-year stretch...