Word: gruffness
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...Tribune. Like any able editor, he had followed the traction situation closely, knew it thoroughly. By telephone he had assembled the streetcar operators, the workers and the city's Commission Council. To them he now marched and with a few crisp words of common sense, a bit of gruff humor and some judicious ejaculations, soon brought concord out of conflict. The strike was off. New Orleans, in hot August, did not walk to its work or play. The carmen adopted a resolution of thanks to Editor Ballard for "injecting" himself into their affairs. It was most unusual...
...EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George...
...when he sickened of "the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world." He pursued economics and political science in Chicago, taking his Ph. D. in 1903. McGill University has employed him ever since. You sometimes see him in this country-a stocky, gruff, mop-headed little figure sitting in the quiet corner of a hotel dining room, or booming greetings and blocking the sidewalk with a well-met friend...
...Besides gruff Laureate Tennyson and sombre George Eliot, Lanice in England interviews chambermaids and a bed freshly and mockingly impressed by a man's figure, in God-Begot House, Winchester, the morning that Anthony Jones embarks for Arabia...
...pressmen sought "gruff and bluff" Marshall Josef Pilsudski, who recently overthrew the Polish Government (TIME, May 24), at his General Staff Headquarters...