Word: gruffness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cabin. That newspapers kept referring to his nephew, Rufus C. Beach, Chicago attorney now on the Dominican Commission, as "Rupert Peach" caused him vast amusement. Questions ("Did you convert Marshal Foch from cigarets to a pipe?" "Will you be the next ambassador to Great Britain?") he parried with a gruff "Nothing doing...
...tall impetuous Teuton held the Reparations stage in Paris all last week. Speaking for Germany in gruff, rasping English, he seemed to epitomize the Nietzschean commandment, " Behard!" As a matter of fact anyone who has been spoken to for five minutes by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the German Reichsbank, and, today, Chairman of the German Delegation to the Second Dawes Committee in Paris (TIME, Feb 11), knows that the man is as drastically metallic as his pistol-shot name-Schacht...
Very cautious and coy was that gruff Bulgarian elder statesman Nicholas Muchanoff, when he arrived in Rome last week, reputedly to represent Tsar Boris of Bulgaria in the matter of Princess Giovanna of Italy. This royal match has been rumored for so many years that incredulity must again be to the fore. All the same M. Muchanoff allowed himself to be most significantly quoted by the militant Fascist daily Il Tevere. At the very least his words served notice to Italians that a Roman Catholic princess need not switch to the Orthodox faith in order to become Bulgaria...
...Revived strong-arm squad-large, gruff officers specially chosen to nightstick gangsters. Two strong-arm squads for Manhattan, one for each of the other boroughs...
...Gruff soldier with heart of gold and will of iron, brilliant in strategy, steadfast in courage-nothing dandified in his uniform, nothing lily-livered in his perpetual cigar, nothing watered about his liquor-such is, and will be, the popular impression of victorious U. S. Grant, modern biographers to the contrary...