Word: snood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that he had decided to work...
...last season Paris turned to the Renaissance, resurrected for hats the snood worn by Beatrice d'Este. It caught on, and the Paris openings last month brought worse news to hairdressers. The simple snood-which caught back hair in a mesh bag-had been developed into what was called "back interest." The 1939 snood, balancing front-tipped hats, almost completely encased the hair in fabric-jersey, velvet, grosgrain-nullifying the hairdressers...
Honorary President Emile Martin glared at Miss Wilson's snood and leaped to his feet after her talk to present a resolution damning snoods. Even the fluttered Miss Wilson voted aye. But some observers felt the hairdressers had reaped the whorlwind they had sown...
...sweet song. Among apple trees and amid green woods, far removed from the bleeding tarts and coal-quay whores of Ulysses' Dublin, the young lover sings the praises of his "dove," his "beautiful one"-half angel, half virgin; he finally persuades her to undo the snood ''that is the sign of maidenhood"; and ends up in the classic predicament of all lyric lovers: starkly sitting on his bottom, all alone. A genius at mimicry. Joyce succeeds in imparting a flavor of old-fashioned purity to his verses; but behind this not entirely insincere...