This was an individual who as far as thews and sinews went appeared to be the village blacksmith or his twin brother, but who in the matter of looks fell short of the standards of the lowest beauty contest. His was a face that could never have launched anything like a thousand ships, and something - possibly an elephant - appeared to have sat on it and squashed it. No one broad-minded will allow himself to be prejudiced against a fellow man because the latter has a squashed face, but this squashed face had in addition a grim and menacing look, such as is so often seen on the faces of actors playing bit parts in gangster films, and - possibly inadvertently - he gave the impression that it would take very little to give him offense.
(from Bachelors Anonymous, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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