Word: cherubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the memory of these Stockbridge bravos brought a sold-out house to Dorothy Maynor's first public recital, at Manhattan's Town Hall. Bronze, cherub-faced Diva Dorothy soon showed that her Stockbridge judges had not been far wrong, but had been a little premature. When she was through, Manhattan's critics huddled in the lobby, agreed that the Voice had a rough edge here & there, prophesied a sensational future...
...chosen to sweeten NLRB is a merry, contemplative cherub of 56. Now grey, paunchy and averse to all forms of physical effort, he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin by cooking flapjacks for the One-Minute Coffee Shop in Madison. Between cakes & coffee he absorbed the principles of economics and labor from Wisconsin's famed Professor John R. Commons. Later he taught economics at Antioch College, where his students called him "Uncle Billy." He has been a careerist in mediation and arbitration-for NRA, for the petroleum industry, finally (in 1934) for the railroads as chairman...
...also Victor Moore, the uncheerful cherub, the chubby Caspar Milquetoast, the Chamber-of-Commerce Charlie Chaplin, the Cupid of clowns who shoots straight for the heart. Victor Moore is the best reason why Leave It to Me! is a hit. Victor Moore is wonderful...
...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...