Word: lulu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kiss the Boys Good-bye). Two other women have made smart collaborators: Edna Ferber with George S. Kaufman (The Royal Family, Dinner at Eight), Bella Spewack with her husband Sam (Boy Meets Girl). At serious drama three women in their day won the Pulitzer Prize: Zona Gale for Miss Lulu Bett (19-20), Susan Glaspell for Alison's House (1931), Zoe Akins for The Old Maid (1935). But Zona
Died. Zona Gale Breese, 64, novelist, essayist, playwright (Birth, Preface to a Life, Yellow Gentians and Blue); of pneumonia; in Chicago. In 1921 she won a Pulitzer prize for her dramatization of her own novel, Miss Lulu Bett...
When her father left one day to visit his tobacco farm, Lulu Belle slipped Jim the keys. He let out his pal, Bill ("Bad Eye") Wilson. They grabbed Jailer Kimel's gun from his office, commandeered a taxi, bound and gagged the driver, Wilkes Swing, and drove to Godwin's home in High Point for clothes and another...
When Jailer Thomas C. Kimel got home and wormed the truth out of weeping Lulu Belle, he locked her up, resigned in shame...
While she was being sentenced to 60 days, word came that a posse had got Jim Godwin. Hefty, heartbroken Lulu Belle wept again. That report was false, but after Bill Wilson lost his nerve, sneaked away and squealed, they did get Godwin, subdued him with a load of bird shot in the face. He still swore he had planned to come back for Lulu Belle and go straight -after he had robbed enough gas stations. Lulu Belle, out on $200 bail and hiding her fat red face at home, didn't believe him this time. She had found...