Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Besides gruff Laureate Tennyson and sombre George Eliot, Lanice in England interviews chambermaids and a bed freshly and mockingly impressed by a man's figure, in God-Begot House, Winchester, the morning that Anthony Jones embarks for Arabia...
...pressmen sought "gruff and bluff" Marshall Josef Pilsudski, who recently overthrew the Polish Government (TIME, May 24), at his General Staff Headquarters...
...nature. When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS-Eugene O'Neill's gruff chronicle of a girl who felt the call of youth stronger than her duty to her ancient husband. Rigid and stony tragedy...
...heir who allowed a friend to take his college education in his name while he was going through all the prerequisites for the return of the prodigal. He is in love with the daughter of his guardian, but when another girl sues him for breach of promise the conventionally gruff old man cuts off his allowance and forbids him to see his daughted. Then comes the need of money, and the inspiration for a new way to make...