Word: physiognomist
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...young Zwinglian minister whose liberal ideas had driven him out of Zurich. His intransigence grew with time, ripening into the melancholy sarcasm that was one of his more noted traits. "He is everything in extremes-always an original," wrote Fuseli's close friend, the physiognomist Lavater. "His look is lightning, his word a thunderstorm; his jest is NATIONAL PORT death, his revenge hell." Even Goethe, who met Fuseli in Rome in 1775, agreed with that. "What fire and fury the man has in him!" he exclaimed in a letter...
...Port Arthur lumber dealer, Fleckman became the first amateur in 34 years to lead the Open after 54 holes when he fired 67-73-69 for a one-stroke margin over Nicklaus, Palmer and Billy Casper. Then out for the last round came the four contenders-and a physiognomist could have picked the winner. Fleckman was visibly nervous; Arnie was intent; Casper stood trancelike on the first tee, gazing vacantly at the sky. Nicklaus was smiling and strutting like a sergeant major...
...posterity with broken noses, scarred cheeks, and blacked eyes. As for the seniors the lines of thought that ennoble the countenance have surely grown sufficiently strong in their three years of hard study to make their portraits taken in November and December as worthy a field for the physiognomist's investigation as they would be if taken in April or May. Take this heart, members of '88, and lighten the labors of your Photographic Committee...
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