Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course, this can be taken with a touch of salt. But nevertheless, Brown is a tough opener in any league. Also this is the last year the Crimson will play Brown for a time at least, and that will tend to make the Bruins extra gruff about the whole thing...
...helm, but a modern button-control system-a button for port and one for starboard. To the suggestion that old-line Norse steersmen might prefer the traditional twirl of the wheel to this newfangled steering, weathered Captain Kjeld Irgens, commodore of the Norwegian America fleet, had a gruff answer. "Quartermasters," said he grimly, "shall learn to like...
Major Joseph F. Nee '38 did an excellent afternoon's work as commanding officer of the battalion. Captain Albert E. Brunelli '38, who gave the orders for Battery D's close formation drill, was another outstanding, gruff voiced officer...
From the managing editor of the Brooklyn Tablet, Catholic weekly, Managing Editor Edwin Leland James of the New York Times last week received a suggestion about the treatment of dispatches from his Barcelona correspondent, Lawrence A. Fernsworth. Gruff "Jimmy" James replied promptly...
...protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood hangers-on, and wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models is the anachronistic quip: "This time I'm right. . . ." "Oh yeah! So was the Literary Digest...