“Oh, nerts to you, she was saying to the third tourist, who had a rather swollen reddish face, a rusty-colored mustache, a white cloth hat with a green celluloid visor. . . .
How charming, said the green visored-man. Id never hear the expression actually used in converstaion. I thought it was an obsolete phrase, soemthing one saw in print inerthe funny papers but never heard.”
—Ernest Hemingway, To Have And Have Not, 1937.