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...graduate of Columbia University's journalism school, Steele cub-reported in Manhattan for the Herald Trib, became its Chicago correspondent, moved to Washington in 1945. Now, as second in command of the Trib's 14-man bureau, he picks his own assignments, hotfoots it wherever he scents a beat (most of his sniffing the past year has been at RFC). He refuses to run with the press pack after stories or to mix business with pleasure at cocktail parties: "I can get more information by going up in a Senator's office and spending five minutes . . . than...
Producer Lantz, whose stable of Universal International cartoon characters includes Woody Woodpecker, Buzz Buzzard and Wally Walrus, keeps his feathered and furry folk as innocent and clean-living as a troop of Cub Scouts. Unlike Hollywood's human stars, the animals may not 1) drink hard liquor, 2) smoke, 3) be ghosts, 4) do bumps & grinds, 5) cavort in diaphanous costumes like the kind Betty Grable wears. Chamber pots, privies, cow milking-relics of earlier movie days-are gone forever. Although cartoon villains may belabor all and sundry, no blood may ever flow...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
...Idiots Can Vote." Herself a mother (of two) and grandmother (of one), Mrs. Littledale earned her blue pencil by starting as a cub reporter. Fresh from Smith College, she went to work on Oswald Garrison Villard's old New York Evening Post, and became its woman's-suffrage editor: "It was wonderful, just what I wanted to do." It was so wonderful that she became the suffragettes' pressagent, once paraded down Fifth Avenue with a sign which said "Insane and Idiots Can Vote. Why Can't I?" Later she joined Good Housekeeping, became its World...
...decades ago Hollywood was Babylon cum Samarkand cum Coney Island. The mind swayed like a prop palm before a wind machine; reason lay limp on the cutting-room floor. Pola Negri walked her leashed leopard cub. through the streets; Bessie Love drove a lavender-colored limousine ; Marion Davies* brought a marble bridge from Italy to span her 80-ft., saltwater swimming pool; and Dolores Del Rio let it be known that she drank only from a golden chalice. Even discounting the pressagents' fevered imaginations, it was a wondrously gaudy existence...