Word: gruffness
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Item, Plot: Choose something with what they call "wacky charm" (like, laughable English wife of American schnook hooks up with gruff Italian husband of American cutie, because schnook and cutie have already hooked themselves up, and English and Italian want to effect a decoupling, an' what happens but that they [Anglo-Italian] fall in love, an' decide to throw away all their money, an' get all happy and mystic and meaningless an' stuff...
...nation's only woman city editor of a metropolitan daily. Aggie still retains that distinction, but now she is much more than a curiosity. Last week the National Federation of Press Women chose her "the most outstanding woman in journalism." To this, proud Hobbyist Aggie added, with a gruff note of femininity: "And a damn good cook...
...Japanese viewer, The Hidden Fortress must have a very archaic flavor, since Kurosawa has grafted onto it the gruff, stylized vocal tones and, sometimes the abrupt, hyperdramatic gestures of Kabuki. When the two peasants climb mountains in a completely prone position, they recall the balletic exaggeration of Japan's ancestral theatre, as do the shrieks that serve the Princess for "normal" speech. Indeed, she must remain silent throughout the journey because her voice would "reveal her identity...
...life, starts with a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier, some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier. More prosaically, his father was a salesman for International Shoe Co. "C.C." (for Cornelius Coffin) Williams was a gruff, aggressive man with a booming voice who was happiest, says Tennessee, "playing poker with men and drinking." His mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, was petite, vivacious, genteel and prim; she nourished rather illusory memories of a grand and gracious Southern past, of going to dances in Natchez and Vicksburg "on those...
Married. Walter Prescott Webb, 73, gruff, poker-playing philosopher of the frontier, leading historian of the American West (The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers); and former president of the American Historical Association; and Mrs. Terrell Dobbs Maverick, 60, widow of Texas' late salty-tongued Congressman Maury Maverick; both for the second time; in Fredericksburg, Texas...