Word: visor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dispatched a representative to Mrs. Garner with a dozen matronly hats, offered them to her as a gift. Valued at $169, all size 23. the assortment included a black felt brimmed model with green, lavender and red bows, a toque with iridescent feathers and odd-angled quills, a visor brimmed type with veil in front, a bumper roller with wraith of veil in the rear. Mrs. Garner refused to open the boxes, refused to accept the hats...
Such a service need not require much money. There is no necessity for brass-buttoned uniforms and visor-caps. The nucleus of guides is still present, it needs little more than a glance of official approval to come to life again...
...Imperatore! Imperatore! Salute Imperatore!" chanted the crowd when Vittorio Emanuele, in full Army uniform, showed himself on a balcony. The first Roman Emperor in 1,460 years raised his withered hand to the visor of his cap, said nothing...
Immediately Publisher Marshall set out to make the Times a fit background for himself. He installed a gold-braided doorman with "Times" across his visor, put all the art staff in smocks with "Times" across the fronts, had the building painted pale grey outside, white-&-tan within, had large gilt eagles painted on all doors...
...them, and the Pre-Raphaelites were made. From Oxford came Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris to follow the new star. Morris was so enchanted with medievalism that he got an Oxford blacksmith to forge him a suit of armor. When he lowered the helmet's visor it stuck and he had to be extricated; but the coat of mail he wore the whole day and would not even take it off for dinner. The Brotherhood's enthusiasm was sometimes greater than their thoroughness. Commissioned by Ruskin to fresco the walls of the new Oxford Union, they...