Word: cherubism
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Across the top of Grit's front page is the design which has been there since its first year, a rococo drawing of two pudgy cherubs having a tug-of-war with a long banner lettered GRIT. Each cherub has a quill pen behind his ear. Around the shoulders of one is slung a pastepot. The other carries a pair of shears. Strewn about the background are stacks of books, a globe, a telescope on a tripod, a gear wheel and an anvil (presumably symbolizing business & industry...
...braved double vengeance, so the Vagabond hoped, with his crass "Don't you think. . ." A sole invasion, perhaps. But no. There was the seedy individual who whined it down his long spectacle bestridden nose; there was the impeccable curlyhead, doubtless a Freshman, who wheedled; there was the lumpy cherub who peeped. The pack...
Somewhere a clock tinkled, and friendly man hopped from his chair. Within a minute the long nose, the curlyhead, the cherub would be gone. For a moment the Vagabond sensed the greatness of a man who had built his house by the side of the road. And then there was Quincy Street...
...plates. The four plates, exactly superimposed, gave the result. Because the printer wanted to brighten the purple plum by reducing the blue, it came out red. Next month's cover has been modelled by Tony Sarg, famed marionette maker. It is a figure of Life's symbolic cherub, shouldering a football nearly as big as himself...
...dear, no," chirps the cherub. "Violets...