Word: gruffness
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...motorman, white-faced and trembling, fearing he had killed not one man but three, raced back. The platform was a bedlam of pushing, screaming people. A voice, embarrassed and gruff, came up from the tracks: "We're all right. Get the train out of here." Inch by inch the train was pulled out, the two rescuers heaved their charge, unconscious but barely scratched, to the platform, then they tried to sneak off into the crowd, found they had to leave their names with the police. One was Frank Serrano, a short, husky longshoreman. The other: William O'Dwyer...
...unknown young Russian diplomat, Alexander Mihailovich Alexandrov, said to have been chief of the Balkan Division of the Foreign Commissariat, turned up in Sofia as Counselor of Legation, reportedly charged with giving Boris moral support in refusing German demands. Another day Tass, the official news agency, issued a gruff statement: "If German troops really are present in Bulgaria and if the further dispatch of German troops to Bulgaria really is taking place, then all this occurred and is occurring without the knowledge and consent...
...Gruff, creaking old (62) Lionel Barrymore heard the Los Angeles WPA Orchestra perform his symphony, Tableau Russe, was so amazed he decided to finish another symphony he started a few years back. Grunted Composer Barrymore, who practices many arts: "It is not only amusing but pleasing to have all this happen...
...side wall off a Mayfair mansion of stately appearance, revealed it to have been one of London's most sumptuously equipped bagnios. The walls were covered with erotic frescos rivaling those of Pompeii, and a giggling crowd soon gathered on the sidewalk to ogle the pictures while gruff, prim London bobbies kept growling all day "Move along, there! That's it, move right along...
...Mitchell); a big, boneheaded Swede (John Wayne) who wants to quit the sea and live on a farm with his mother, and a timid little one who looks after him (John Qualen); a dipsomaniacal, upper-class Englishman (Ian Hunter) trying to forget his shoddy past-also on a grim, gruff captain (Wilfrid Lawson). There is no sustained plot to occupy the men, only sporadic incidents such as a battering storm at sea, a drunken rumpus in a West Indian port with a bevy of native girls, a tingling passage through the war zone, a long-drawn debauch in London...