Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston player brash enough to sit near him is Ted Williams, who calls him "Mister McCarthy" with an inflection that might pass for respect but might also be a star player's impudence. The Boston sportwriters have already declared a cold war on Marse Joe because of his gruff refusal to answer questions. Said a Boston Post sportwriter: "I don't talk to him, unless absolutely necessary...
...Christopher Lonsdale, now a ruddy, gruff and silver-haired 61, the theories of most modern pedagogues are so much "poppycock." "Keep 'em happy. That's their motto. But dammit, there's no easy road to learning." His masters, who sir him as the students do, conduct their classes with Victorian formality, emphasize the Scriptures, Greek and Latin: Boys who break minor rules are punished by extra work. Those who commit more serious offenses get a caning in the headmaster's office...
...dumb nor so gruff as he acts, Slim Lynch, like many an oldtime newsman, finds it amusing to pretend he is semiliterate. Says he: "People always embarrass me when they talk about style. I don't know how to start a story or end it. I just put down simple words and I write about simple things. I use my feet and get around and talk to a lot of people...
...Gruff Justice...
Milestones [TIME, Sept. 2] describes the late James Clark McReynolds, former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, as "grim, gruff." Here is a letter from the former Associate Justice, which might seem to admirably illustrate those qualities...