Word: gruffness
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...Mary Evans meets her producer (Gregory Ratoff), he chases her out of the room, crying to his three reassuring assistants : "No, No! One yes at a time." Presently he calls her back, gives her a seven-year contract. Constance Bennett is a pound or two heavier than heretofore, less gruff* in her speech...
...neck, John Joseph McGraw looks very much like what he was until last week-manager of one of the most famous baseball teams in history, the New York Giants. He has a sharp way of squinting his hard blue eyes, as though he were looking into the sun, a gruff, arrogant way of speaking. There was only a touch of his hardness, his arrogance in a typewritten message which Manager McGraw last week gave out to the Press in the grimy club offices of the Giants above Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
...establishment with another corpse, he becomes confused; when one of the corpses gives signs of returning animation, he becomes terrified, runs away. At this point the story becomes frankly and happily implausible. Police find one corpse in the undertaker's parlor. They pack it off to a gruff old personage named Robert Daniels (Tully Marshall) under the impression that it is his nephew. Daniels' daughter and her husband disappear. A murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know...
...Gruff, bespectacled President Coburn had tied the sprawling transport line of the corporation into the closely knit system which is now American Airways Inc. He abandoned some unprofitable lines and added new routes until it was possible to fly from Montreal to Los Angeles via American Airways. Before he took office Avco had more than 80 subsidiaries (including schools, charter services, factories, sales companies). Before he left there were less than 20. His economies reduced a net operating loss of $2,464,000 for the first nine months of 1930, to $628,000 for the same period last year...
...their swords, adjusted their trappings and went as usual to the White House on New Year's morning to mumble polite greetings and shake the hand of President Hoover. Present also at the diplomatic reception, which began at ii a. m., were a few Congressmen (notably absent: gruff old Speaker John Nance Garner), Army & Navy officers and two Negro cavalrymen who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor...