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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Royal Restitution | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Unexamined Examiner | 10/19/1932 | See Source »

...unto one John Kostva, Polish senator and Lord of Zakroczym was born a manchild, the second of seven babes. Six had the innocent mien common to all infants, but Stanislas' round countenance shone with a piety known only to cherubim and seraphim. He grew up, studied at Vienna, there early displayed beatific proficiency. Said his brother Paul: "He devoted himself to spiritual things so completely that he frequently became unconscious. . . . This happened at home to my brother when he was seated at the table. . . ." Then Paul, vexed, maltreated Stanislas who answered, "Your rough treatment will end in my going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bones | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

...complete program is as follows: Creator alme siderum--Puer natus est nobis--Adoro to devotee Allegrl Miscrere Allegrl Sacerdotes Domini Byrd Cherubim Song Rachmaninov Chorus of Bacchantes, from "Philemon and Baucis" Gounod Canzonet and Ballet--I Go Before, My Darling Morley On the Plains, Fairy Trains Weelkes Choral Hymns from the Rig-Veda Hymn to Agni--Hymn to Indra--Hymn to Manas Holst Coronation Scene, from "Boris Godounov" Moussorgsky Four Folk Songs The Galway Piper Gute Nacht The reapers' Song Turn Ye to Me Drake's Drum Coleridge-Taylor Love Songs Brahms Let Their Celestial Concerts All Unite from "Samson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLEE CLUB TO SING IN MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | 5/13/1926 | See Source »

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