Word: seraphic
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...order who function as messengers of the Kingdom of Heaven. In Isaiah's vision they had three sets of wings, the better to aid them in their flights through space and eternity. and they traveled with the speed of light. On earth last week, a sort of human seraph was buzzing around the planet at a fabulous rate for a messenger tied to mere aircraft. In less than a fortnight he had: munched mangoes in Manila with President Magsaysay; lunched in London with Winston Churchill: held high-level sessions with Chiang Kai-shek in Taipei and Konrad Adenauer...
...morning of April 30, the submarine Seraph, Lieut. N. A. Jewell commanding, surfaced about a mile off the estuary of the Huelva River. Out of his canister came Major Martin. The officers on deck bowed their heads as Lieut. Jewell spoke the words of the burial service, then Martin was gently pushed into the water and was picked up by the ingoing tide...
...Doren's prosaic, reasonable book about Poet John Dryden* provoked the New York Post's Reviewer Sterling North, who has been similarly provoked before, to a brisk whirl of Drydenesque heroic couplets. In 32 rough (but sometimes very ready) didactic verses, he reproduced a spat between "Seraph Pro" and "Archangel Con," before a Heavenly Critics' jury for the Book of the Aeon Club...
...stared, enemy star shells burst in the sky and small boats carried the Commandos to the beaches. Destroyers of the Royal Navy escorted them, and "sometimes we caught snatches of the suave voice of the naval commander: 'Make to Rastus-Sink her,' or 'Make to Seraph-Board...
...spirited bicycle, dashes out to the park, there meets with a grande dame reposing in a Rolls-Royce while her chauffeur mends a flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty...