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Still, the Brisbane speech, which rears its sombreroed head into any Google search of the author, marked a shift in the way Shriver engaged with the world.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Pasadena, 85,000 including 2,000 sombreroed Texans, watched a favored Southern Methodist attack, led by an All-America mite, Bobby Wilson, falter before Stanford's rugged defense, finally fall 7-to-0.

From Time Magazine Archive

From the ceiling sombreroed skeletons dangle drolly; paintings by Tamayo, Rivera, Velasco and Siqueiros are upstaged by a superb Orozco hung on the same wall a floor above the others.

From Time Magazine Archive

A crowd surrounded the hall—a dusty, booted, spurred, shirt-sleeved and sombreroed assemblage that did not wear the hall-mark Shefford had come to associate with Mormons.

From The Rainbow Trail by Grey, Zane