Word: hooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suit for plagiarism brought by Authoress Gladys Adelina Selma Lewis ("Georges Lewys") against Playwright Eugene O'Neill, his pub lishers and the Theatre Guild. Miss Lewis had charged that in O'Neill's Strange In terlude the motif of "selective parent hood" was stolen from her privately printed book The Temple of Pallas-Athenae, which pictured a temple in Paris at which perfect young males are - in Judge Woolsey's words - "kept at stud as professional fathers." Playwright O'Neill's lawyers easily convinced the court he had never heard of Author Lewis...
Notably absent from the exhibition was the storm centre of modern architecture, the model for $250,000,000 Radio City. The designers were still tinkering with it last week. Prominently present, however, was bristle-headed, kinetic Raymond Hood's model for the scarlet-blue-&-gold Electrical Building for the Chicago World's Fair. Among Norman farmhouses for Pennsylvania tycoons, Spanish palaces for Hollywood directors, French Gothic cathedrals for Idaho Baptists, critics were more interested in Delano & Aldrich's design for the new U. S. Embassy on the Place de la Concorde, Paris...
...London, but he remembered better days. Before the War he had been land agent for a good friend in Devon. There he had known and liked quixotic, unbalanced John Osmund, and had fallen in love with Helen, Osmund's fiancee. Osmund and two cronies, attempting a Robin Hood burglary, had been arrested, jailed. Gunn was still in love with Helen but he had not seen her since. One cold night in Piccadilly, with only a half-crown between him and something desperate, he found them all again...
What the members of this Order wear is a modified Dominican habit. This consists of a tunic, fastened with a black girdle (having three knots at the ends, signifying the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience), a scapulary, and over all a mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than...
...James E. Hood of Louisville was run down and killed by an automobile in Baltimore. In his pocket was found a card reading: "This is to certify that I hereby permit my husband to go where he pleases, drink what he pleases and furthermore to enjoy the company of any lady or ladies he sees fit, as I know he is a good judge. I want him to enjoy life while he can as I know he is going to be dead a long, long time.-Mrs. Rhoda Hood...