Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This ditty, roared out by gruff Lord Beaverbrook in Britain's august House of Lords, was a handy text for the war's great new development: a race for the initiative on Germany's western and southern fronts...
...Gruff F. P. A. (Franklin Pierce Adams) opened his mouth, beat out a section of the William Tell overture on his teeth with a pencil. Rumpled John Kieran murmuring "where do you find the bass?" tremoloed Sleepy Hills of Tennessee on a borrowed accordion. Oscar Levant, somewhat nervous, sashayed through a couple of Gershwin preludes on the piano. Clifton Fadiman played pitchman...
Monty Woolley has doffed his smirk and wisecracking manner, but he's retained all his spark and individuality as the gruff title character of the "Pied Piper." The saga of one Englishman's battle to escape the rush of the Nazi armies through France, and of the waifs he picks up on his way, the "Pied Piper" is an original and highly effective film account of one of the dramatic episodes of this...
...Marquess was a gruff-voiced Lord-of-the-Manor type who had divorced his wife, the Lady Emma, second daughter of the Marquess of Bath. There had been a great clatter and clucking at the divorce. His Lordship did not seem to mind the talk. One of his ancestors had been a bosom friend of Henry VIII, and the men of Northampton had never bothered greatly about what others said. Their motto was "I seek only...
Brahms: Six Intermezzi and Two Rhapsodies (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor; 8 sides). Gruff, warmhearted Brahms is revealed in these rugged romantic works of small-scale architecture, played with fire, poetry, complete authority...