Word: zona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incorporated last January. During the summer it started to raise $10,000,000 for Dry propaganda. Its advisory committee was then known to include such believers in Prohibition as Chainstoreman James Cash Penney, National Grange Master Louis John Taber, Authors Zane Grey and Zona Gale. Last week the organization announced a total membership of more than 2,000 businessmen scattered over 46 states. Its program had been endorsed by Chain Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett. Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times, Publisher William Hutchinson Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Review...
...World. In the next 20 years City Editor Chapin won his nickname, "Simon Legree of Park Row." Brilliant, erratic, hardbitten, utterly ruthless, he feared no one. was feared by many, his underlings included. Also he made many a friend, none more loyal than his Reporter Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb. Author Zona Gale worked for "C. C."; so did Barton Currie (later editor of Country Gentleman, Ladies' Home Journal, World's Work), Will Inglis (secretary to John D. Rockefeller), Lindsay Denison (still a crack staffman on the Evening World), and Ralph Pulitzer, now the World's publisher. Joseph Pulitzer...
...takes something to write about simple people, countrymen, immigrants, without being photographic, drab. What it takes Zona Gale has got. Out of the ruck of close-to-the-soil Midwestern authors she emerged with her first book. Her stories are as realistic as bread but they have a homemade flavor, not to be had without a personal recipe. She handles a grim subject with skilfully gentle, feminine hands...
...woman sacrifices her secret formula for the best bread ever baked. A burglar willy-nilly witnesses a death scene, is converted by it, comes forward to explain, is arrested. An old man knows he is a burden, takes care that his suicide shall give as little trouble as possible. Zona Gale has seen through the salability of plot to the necessity of a story. Her prosy people are simplified into poetics...
Author. Author Zona Gale (people joked when she married William Llywelyn Breese) was born in Portage, Wis., 56 years ago, still lives there. Once an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, she has served on the Board of Regents. Once a newshawk (for Milwaukee papers and New York World) she is now newsworthy. In 1911 she won first prize in a short-story contest in which there were 15,000 entries. In 1921 her play Miss Lulu Belt won the Pulitzer Prize. Last month she publicly forgave a plagiarist (TIME. Sept. 15). Other books: Preface to a Life, Faint Perfume...