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  • n  English illustrator of several of Dickens' novels (1815-1882)
  • n  the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

  • The book conveys much of the joyous, raucous spirit of Chicago, but in the end its message is as grim as Richard Daley's phiz.
  • But that screwed-up face is the most effective ad phiz in the biz, now that Clara Peller has stopped demanding "Where's the beef?" Five years after his first commercial, Ernest has .
  • Yet today a growing number of savvy professionals value Wagner for an entirely different reasonthe rarity of the 1910 baseball cards bearing his phiz.

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