Word: gruffness
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...Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte was trembling and acold. At rehearsal, the singers were tired and downcast. Stage Director Alfred Lunt was slumped in a front-row seat, clasping his head. From the pit came the low, gruff voice of Veteran Conductor Fritz Stiedry: "Alfred! Be very angry. Make a big scene...
Life Story His patients had lately found him gruff and moody. Nevertheless, Dr. Raymond Roscoe Squier was one of the most successful gynecologists in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. On a hot afternoon last week, he was neither in his office nor at his home: dressed only in his underwear, he was sitting at a portable typewriter in a bedroom at Manhattan's University Club, pecking out the story of his life...
While Trainer Rutchick listened to the radio account of the race, Owner Jack Amiel, a gruff, bluff Broadway restaurant owner, was having the time of his life in Louisville. In ten years as an owner, Amiel has never before had a "big" horse. He bought Count Turf at the yearling sales-for only $3,700-because "he looked like Count Fleet." After the Count's triumph, Amiel phoned his wife and tearfully told her: "He won it all by himself, Ethel-you'll see it in the movies, Ethel...
...week's end, the Pentagon issued a gruff statement that "the basic differences" between J.C.S. and MacArthur would be explained fully to Congress...
...Army's airborne branch (organized 1940) is only an infant. But in battle experience the airborne is a seasoned veteran with a gruff enough voice to demand its place in the sun. Last week the airborne's demands were beginning to produce results. The Air Force announced that it is setting up a new command at Greenville, S.C.-the Eighteenth Air Force-whose sole job will be carrying troopers and equipment to the battlefield...