Word: gruffness
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Into Montevideo harbor last week steamed the U.S. light cruiser Memphis, the destroyer leader Somers and the destroyer escort Christopher - all commanded by gruff, hearty, barrel-chested Vice-Admiral Jonas Howard Ingram. U.S. sailors swarmed ashore, paraded with Uruguayan sailors, enjoyed the "best shore leave we've had." U.S. bombers flew down from Brazil, established a base in Uruguay, roared over the La Plata estuary almost within hearing of Buenos Aires and its Colonels Government in Argentina...
...agreement with them itself and does not need the help of Mr. Willkie." But what about the help of Mr. Roosevelt? Perhaps Stalin, shouting at a Presidential candidate, wanted also to be heard by the President of the U.S. A few weeks after Teheran, Soviet Russia had served gruff notice that the friendliest attempt to interfere with her unilateral decisions about the fate of Eastern Europe - or even to discuss them - would be resented...
...Cinderella in reverse" is Miss De Haviland's own description of the plot. She plays the rich princess to Robert Cummings' poor boy, while Charles Coburn makes a gruff fairy godfather. The worst that can be said of them is that Olivia is merely silly in a few scenes and that Cummings sometimes sinks to slapstick, though even much of that is managed expertly enough to be funny...
...Talbott is a gruff, rough political boss who has ruled the Fourth as his father-in-law (and now his enemy) Ben Johnson, 85, did before him. He stage-managed the rise of Senator Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler. Arbitrary with his patronage, he antagonized many a ward heeler, earned the nickname of "The Old Bear." No one knew why he decided to run for Congress just when the Democratic ship was rocking in Kentucky. But retiring Governor Keen Johnson (no kin to Patriarch Ben) obligingly arranged for Talbott to be nominated. At the polls Talbott was exposed to "bullet votes...
Averell Harriman. The President had decided on suave, handsome W. Averell Harriman as the new U.S. Ambassador to Russia, replacing gruff, blunt old Admiral William H. Standley, (TIME, Sept. 27). But it seemed probable that snow-haired Cordell Hull, if his health permits, would make the long trip to Moscow for the coming tripartite conference...