Word: gruffness
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...felicity that became a national legend.. Five of their six royal children were born at "dear old Sandringham," and during his wife's confinements, the King himself prepared and served her morning cup of tea. Mary, who was better schooled and sharper-witted than he, repaid his gruff affection by curbing his profanity (learned in the Royal Navy) and by teaching herself "to push the little balls around"-her phrase for the King's favorite game of billiards. In January 1936, the Queen wrote in the diary that her husband had kept each day for almost...
...government on a vote of confidence on the EDC issue. Both of these pledges were specific and circumscribed: internationalist Rene Mayer had not abandoned internationalism. But he had opened wide the gates for further changes. Voting began at 2:20 a.m., and less than an hour later gruff old Assembly President Edouard Herriot announced the result: 389 for Mayer, 205 against, 22 abstentions. It was one of the largest working majorities any recent French Premier...
...minutes later his gruff voice cut through the cigar smoke again...
Bloodhounds of Broadway (20th Century-Fox) is a good-humored cinemusical about a few of Damon Runyon's guys and dolls: Lookout Louie, Curtaintime Charlie, Pittsburgh Philo, Ropes McGonigle and other such gruff but likable Times Square characters...
Cornell's gruff Alexander M. Drummond, 67, who in 32 years as professor of speech and drama, has turned Cornell's drama department into one of the best in the country. Like the football coach he started out to be, "the Boss" railed and ranted through hundreds of rehearsals ("May I remind the cast that the audience usually likes to hear the lines that the author has taken the trouble to write?"), badgered and bludgeoned dozens of gawky students into becoming well-known actors and writers. Among them: Sidney Kingsley, Franchot Tone, William Prince, Dorothy Sarnoff...