Word: faces
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scientifically to render reasonably presentable poor folk who are now too repulsive in appearance to get work. Citing cases among the pitifully ugly and poor who applied to the Bureau on its opening day, Dr. Gumpert told of a half-starved seamstress who had had no clients since her face became covered with large nauseating warts. She is on the dole now-a charge upon the Government- but when the Bureau has dealt with the warts she should soon win back her profitable trade. Recalling that Berlin has a standing idle army of some 200,000 unemployed, Dr. Gumpert cried...
...shepherd driving his flock before him; he is the bull marching at the head of his herd." Portrait at 30. "The mind of Beethoven has strength for its base. The musculature is powerful, the body athletic; we see the short stocky body with its great shoulders, the swarthy red face, tanned by sun and wind, the stiff black mane, the bushy eyebrows, the beard running up to the eyes, the broad and lofty forehead and cranium, 'like the vault of a temple,' powerful jaws 'that can grind nuts,' the muzzle and the voice of a lion...
...bridge-hand with no face cards...
Last week, thin, scant-haired; Dr. Uhrbrock made known the guesses of his 603 scrutators. Most of them had gone far astray. Some 75% of the men and 81% of the women picked the owner of the "moron" face for a stupid oaf. Yet he had scored high in the Thorndike test. The pleasant-faced man was a dullard, had scored low in the test. He was adjudged acute by 70% of the men, 78% of the women...
Querist Uhrbrock's conclusions: Employers cannot estimate the intelligence of job-seekers from photographs. Many a stupid employe there must be, whose face is his fortune...