Word: facially
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Could the proletariat warm up to a candidate who spent precious moments daily in training and caressing his facial dandelions? Not in a thousand years...
...said Mr. Fradd. "Several years ago we had a case of a young man who woke up one morning and found the whole side of his face paralyzed, and doctors were unable to assign any particular cause for it. In six weeks under Mr. Neudorf the action of the facial muscles was entirely restored. Another man who had been fencing with his room-mate was pierced through the eye by the point of a foil, and although the sight was not impaired, his entire left side was paralyzed. Leaving college for the year, he placed himself in charge...
Signer Pirandello speaks no English. He speaks in rapid melodious Italian, with few gestures of hands but with great facial mobility. When I heard him he was discussing two kinds of art?that of persons and that of things. There is the contemplative artist, he says, who withdraws from the world and finally becomes lost in the secure observation of his own mentality. There is the artist who is stimulated by action, the sort of action that Mussolini now represents in Italy, whose interest is in people rather than in the mind...
...civil life, of course, jaw injuries are uncommon, and facial surgery is largely of the plastic type, dealing with the soft parts of skin and tissue. The chief drawback is the slowness of the process. A case may require a dozen operations before its discharge, for these things cannot be done in a single step. The anaesthesia and prevention of infection are of special importance. Much of the early War work was hampered by infection and lack of equipment. In plastic surgery flaps of skin and tissue are frequently moved from one part of the body to take the place...
Other types of facial operations involve the bony structure and cartilages. Any part of the skeletal system may be repaired by grafts. Wax models are sometimes constructed for patterns. Long noses may be shortened, bony humps in them may be removed, depressions may be filled in in "saddle noses." At Major Gilles' clinic a woman with terrible burns on her face was equipped with a new jaw and eyebrows. A baby with a withered ear was given a good one. Hundreds of applicants, who want their faces reconstructed because of deformities which militate against employment or marriage, have...