Word: craniumed
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...circle was shortly joined by Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis, a "boyish-looking man, with large, bulging, curiously flattened eyeballs which projected from his cranium like the eyes of an insect." Lewis was the author of the best-selling shocker, The Monk. So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary...
...considerably enlarged. They measured the tremendous, coffin-shaped face, found it 7.16 inches wide, 7.05 inches long from nose-bridge to jaw-point. They also noted huge protuberances over the eyebrows and at the back of the head, an elevation like a ridgepole from front to back of the cranium...
...Annunzio's "savage modesty" and his desire not to have company in the bathroom when he was taking a bath. He even praises D'Annunzio's bald head. But in this he falls short of D'Annunzio himself, who declared that his "highly polished cranium," as a thing of beauty, could be ranked with a greyhound or the legs of Actress Ida Rubinstein. One of the worst pieces of horse opera to find a U. S. publisher, D'Annunzio runs to 583 pages, carries conviction in none of them. To U. S. readers...
...Guildsmen, up stood Brooklyn-born Arthur T. Robb, editor of Editor & Publisher, conservative journal of the trade. His opponent: mountainous Columnist Heywood Broun, national Guild president. The clash was advertised as the press debate of the year, but the forensics fizzled, for Mr. Robb spoke from a fact-jammed cranium, while Mr. Broun replied from an overstuffed heart...
Structurally or functionally speaking, TIME left itself wide open for a sock on its figurative cranium when describing the physical and mental examination of teachers (March 7) as extending "from toe to cerebellum...