Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brahms lived his last 35 years in Vienna where he was celebrated for his gruff, churlish ways, his eccentric appearance. He went around in a shabby alpaca coat, trousers inches too short. His beard covered his shirt front, so he never wore a collar. On rainy days he took his daily walk in the Prater wrapped in an old-fashioned green shawl fastened in front with an enormous pin. Like Scientist Albert Einstein he scorned socks...
...Dame Sybil Thorndike must be a very nice woman. It's a reassuring play for it demonstrates with properly repressed vigor that the home is the thing, that women make the home, and therefore women are the thing. It has many nice women in it the grandmother is gruff and self-centered but an fond she is really nice. The middle aged mothers are not pretty women nor clever but they are really nice women. The jaded temptress is flighty, miserably unsuccessful in her constant attempts to be amusing, gives the appearance of having dressed by standing under a tree...
...presentable. The best moments in The White Parade are those in which she is conducting a love affair with a Boston polo player (John Boles), which begins as a joke and ends in what most cinemaddicts are likely to mistake for tragedy. Good shot: Jane Darwell, as a gruff head nurse, persuading her superior not to oust Loretta two weeks before graduation...
Onto the stage of a Manhattan theatre walked gruff, chubby George White Rogers, chief radio operator of the T. E. L. Morro Castle, to greet an apathetic audience with: "You people have made a hero out of me. . . ." For his appearances "Sparks" Rogers expected to receive $1,000 a week...
...Gloucester to do Australia this autumn. Last week loyal London editors hinted that perhaps Prince George's romance was the real reason for the substitution. They were confident that he will be equal to the strain of marriage. When Prince George got back from South Africa, they recalled, his gruff old uncle, the Earl of Athlone, told him publicly at a banquet: "You had better think of marrying soon...