Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anglo-Persian. Spunky young Persians under their gruff and aging King of Kings have finally broken, denounced and torn up all important concessions previously held by the Great Powers except that of Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd., of which concern the British Government is majority stockholder...
...hundred million drachmas ($5,700,-000) is a lot of money to Greeks. To get it from the Chamber of Deputies and "to spend this huge but necessary sum for munitions" was the program last week of gruff General George Kondylis, Minister of War. With a pack of Deputies who would stop at nothing to back him up. Genera! Kondylis strutted into the hall and Zing!-a chair hurtled clear across the Chamber at Alexander Papanastasiou, leader of the Opposition. M. Papanastasiou, an artful dodger, was not hurt until he threw the chair back at the Government with such violence...
...Channel Crossing, who would doubtless have murdered Mr. Latimer on sight, the people whom Mr. Latimer entertains in Where Sinners Meet are four amiable peewees, admirably suited to his favorite pastime of interrupting elopements to make sure that the participants are well matched. Leonard (Reginald Owen) is a gruff and ignorant milord running off with a charming lady named Anne (Diana Wynyard). Under Mr. Latimer's hospitable roof he is surprised to meet his wife Eustasia (Billie Burke) eloping with a toothy young bachelor named Nicholas (Alan Mowbray). By the time Mr. Latimer has given both his male guests...
...murder of Madero and the installation of a conservative government. Villa learns of the treachery and returns to Mexico at the head of his rejuvenated army of peons and bandits. Pascal is ousted, and the liberal reforms accomplished. Wallace Beery as the much romanticized Villa, gives another of his gruff and lovable portrayals. The love interest is supplied by Fay Wray, and Stuart Erwin as the American reporter is adequate. Henry B. Walthall, who has appeared much too rarely since "The Birth of a nation" makes the gentile, idealistic Madero a vivid character. The photography and musical accompaniment are excellent...
Released,Lonnie instantly butts his kinky head into more trouble by complaining to Mr. Walcott, head of Oceanic Stevedore Co., that he and the other Negroes have been given short pay. Gruff Mr. Walcott (grizzled Dodson Mitchell, who last played in the 14th Street theatre during the Blizzard of '88) strikes him for his impudence, tells him that he is "a bad nigger...