Word: visored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conspicuous advertisement. Many people passed it over without serious attention. Not so a certain old man who sits all day under a green celluloid visor, peering at papers in the editorial rooms of a certain metropolitan daily. His clothes are shabby; he is unable to play any musical instrument; if in a ball game, the pitcher should "walk" him, it would take long for him to get to first base; but he is paid money, this dilapidated curmudgeon, for one distinguishing asset-the length of his nose. He smells news as a hound smells an opossum. He drew a circle...
Peering intently from beneath her perky white visor, crafty Helen Wills, of California, kept track of every tennis ball that came whizzing her way at Forest Hills, L. I. When she had dealt firmly with the last one, she was still national singles champion and, with Mrs. George Wightman, of Philadelphia, national doubles champion...
...easy to play then bandit sash and a visor; it is easy to be anarchist when, like Desperate Ambrose you possess a "veadetta hat". But to attend royalty in knee parts and yet remain that is a deferment matter. The had of King George has become indeed the ironical best result of human philosophy...