Word: cubbing
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...heard that no diva ever avoided publicity and as for "Our Mary" being in bed-well, he guessed lots of people had received in their bedrooms before this, in health and in sickness, for better or for worse. Still, he had been as persistent as even a cub reporter should be, probably. The hotel manager seemed to think so. Back at the office it would be easy enough to report that Miss Garden was really quite sick, could see no one. But, hold! That would be a story in itself. Couldn't say that. No, it was just...
...then the French maid tripped by. The cub reporter's French was halt, lame and blind, but he could gesticulate. He detained the maid. He scribbled again...
...fluffy lion cub crouched, speed-stunned in Signer Mussolini's lap as the Dictator stepped upon the throttle of his racing car and sped toward Rome. That was in 1923. Provincial admirers had bestowed the beast. As she grew into a sleek young lioness, the Duce, intrigued, named her Italia Bella. He is wont to enter her iron barred cage crooning "Italia Mia, . . ." and only twice has she scratched him (TIME, July 12). Recently her sleek flanks grew pendulous. The Fascist press began exultantly to refer to her as Sultana, Italia, and she brought forth three cubs...
Though these last seemed appropriate names for the cubs of Sultana, Italia, Signor Benito Mussolini did not approve them. He dropped a word, instead, and suddenly some thousand Fascists wrote to suggest that his given name be divided into three syllables (Benito) and each syllable doubled to form the name of a cub. Last week it was formally announced that the offspring of Sultana Italia will be called "Bebe," 'Nini" and Toto." Within a few days two sets of human triplets at Rome and another at Ravenna were similarly christened...
...Davison '06, leader of the Glee Cub, returned late last spring from a trip abroad taken during his sabbatfcal year, and will again take the baton...