Word: gruff
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...
...Gruff Hugh S. Johnson, who regards polls as public evils "not to be swallowed whole," offered to eat his syndicated Scripps-Howard column if the Gallup poll should prove correct this fall. Dr. George Horace Gallup accepted and replied: "My newspaper existence will end if I fail to predict the election correctly, but General Johnson will only have to eat a page* of newspaper print...
...Shanghai Japanese newspaper last week, illustrated a familiar truth: the Japanese flair for exact imitation wanders occasionally into the realms of caricature. Last week Japanese leaders were busy as bits of carbon paper trying to copy European totalitarian techniques, and this vituperation was supposed to sound like a last gruff word before a crushing blow, a Hitlerish warning before total obliteration...