Word: gruffness
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...most typical great men England ever produced, Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington (1769-1852) survives "as little more than the instrument of a single victory and the gruff hero of a dozen anecdotes." Biographer Guedalla, in 536 coruscating pages, has rubbed the rust off the Iron Duke, polished him till he shines...
...praise, however, to May Robson, who rides roughshod over the industrial leaders of the nation, working her will in national crises. Irascible, domineering as she appears, it is impossible to dislike her because of her gruff good-humor, and her submerged maternal affection, which intermittently breaks through her hardness, and prevents the characterization from degenerating into a mechanical personification of worldly greed...
...Jahncke has swung through the West bearing the message of Hooverism. Recently the Federal Farm Board sent a letter into Missouri, where a special election was to be held in the 7th Congressional district, outlining the blessings which have accrued to agrarians from the Republican Agricultural Marketing Act. Gruff, chunky Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown, President Hoover's chief political aide in the Cabinet, went a step further last week. Addressing a convention of the National Association of Postmasters at Omaha, Neb., he delivered a speech which only said one thing to his listeners: get busy and stump...
...Well keep quiet about it.'' growled the gruff old Marshal with a twinkle. "Neither am I a Pilsudskist, but Prystor is sitting in the next room. Don't let him hear...
...marched toward the Chamber shouting "Death to Briand." They were quickly dispersed. The real attack came inside the Chamber, not outside, and it was not aimed at M. Briand's life. Hour by hour, as the day approached when the National Assembly must choose a new President of France, gruff, sleepy-eyed Br'er Briand loomed larger & larger as leading candidate. His enemies selected a shock squadron of eight orators under Deputy Henry Franklin-Bouillon to blast...