Word: lula
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eroded red soil with oxen, sold peaches to passengers on the Illinois Central's cars, wangled a job as a printer's devil. When he was 16 he left home, headed for the rich black Delta lands downriver, became a bookkeeper in a country store at Lula, Miss. In 1892, at 17, he went to Memphis...
Bernhard, who pilots his own plane, recently toured Scandinavia with Juliana ("Lula" to him) to thank the ruling houses for the relief sent Holland. The Danes gave Bernhard and Juliana the prized Order of the Elephant. Grateful but rueful, Bernhard commented privately: "There are two kinds of decorations-those for valor and those for banqueting; I get all the eating decorations." Wilhelmina, who used to disapprove of Bernhard's prewar frivolity (he even drank cocktails on Sunday) now thinks so much of him that she lets him smoke in her dining room...
Impromptu. But at the last minute a few white ladies changed their minds about being aloof. Led by Y.W.C.A. Secretary Mrs. Lula Carr, they met the First Lady at the train, arranged a luncheon, took her to see the Cannon textile mills 18 miles away, had Towel-Maker Charles Cannon explain how he treats 16,000 workers. Impressed, Mrs. Roosevelt nodded "My Day" approval in a way that would wound many a union man and flabbergast Columnist Westbrook Pegler: "In view of all this, which seems to meet high union standards, I was surprised to find that the mill...
...since intermarried, send their dead to Mr. Bond, have him keep the bodies until April 28 each year. Then they assemble for a mass burial. Last week, day before registration, Mr. Bond received and stored the body of an Irish Trader, "a young man named Carroll," aged 21, from Lula...