Beglassed

If the child of five needs glasses to prevent injury to the eyes and to the health, the chances are that at a later age the double injury will not be avoided except by glasses. All the nonsense about “bespectacled children” and a “beglassed nation” must be contemptuously put down. If the facts are as stated, pride and prejudice must have no voice in the matter.

Why do people who wear eyeglasses or spectacles insist upon keeping them on when photographed? That simple detail will ruin the otherwise most successful portrait ever taken. And yet the beglassed one clings to her glasses nine times out of ten.

So I bowed out, while the monocled lady fastened the beglassed eye upon me and the grey haired man commented: “We are all good friends of the prince, and believe in him—”

They were: the dark yell leader (with the blonde, beglassed daughter of Merced police chief);

We were greeted by a tall, beglassed mortician, who looked at us and smiled.

From then until the time for closing a constant stream of delighted visitors marched through the great beglassed structures.

Aunt Ora, who always had her hats “created” by her own milliner, wandered with Mother Q., into one of Hollywood’s lush, beglassed, eating establishments.

[…]a new bridge across the Danube, and the elegant beglassed and befountained Hotel Metropol.