Word: lioness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost a year Mussolini's physicians have forbidden him his favorite exercise: a daily half-hour ride' on a horse as mettlesome as his pet lioness, Italia Bella...
...Incidentally the name given by the Premier to his pet lioness...
...first decided to call the freak a "liger" (TIME, July 7), but the Zoo declined to stand for it. It was found that the hybrid was not the child of a lion and tigress, but of a tiger and lioness. Amid plaudits from animals it was decided to call the infant hybrid a "Tigon...
...Rome, at a filming of Quo Vadis, a cinema lioness became "highly excited," jumped over the barrier, landed upon an aged "super," mauled him ferociously. The super died. Young Gabrielino d'Annunzio, son of Italy's famed soldier-poet, who was one of three directing the filming, had no lion license, was sought by the carabinieri...
...with their merits and importance. This impression they have sought to make in usual operatic ways. They have engaged press agents and a claque, which usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with their press agents and claques have presently discovered...