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- distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective Runyonesque refers to this type of character and the type of situations and dialog...
- Gangster Nigel Lindsay. Their performances were hailed as "hilarious Runyonesque theatre-enthusiast gangsters" Animashaun appeared as Loial in the Amazon...
- Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture, with Runyonesque dialog and costumes. This was the last Star Trek script credited to Gene...
- Superman comic books of the 1950s. The villains were often caricatured, Runyonesque gangsters pla**** with tongue in ch****. Violence on the show was toned...
- lifestyle magazine. Sugar was described by sportscaster Bob Costas as being "Runyonesque" (in reference to Damon Runyon). Sugar appeared in several films playing...
- more grits than gravy. Sam Levene sang “Sue Me” with such a wonderful Runyonesque flavor that his singing had been easy to forgive, in fact it had been...
- hired gun in The Thin Man (1934). By 1940 Brophy was so identified as a Runyonesque character with a Brooklynese speech pattern that he was cast as the voice...
- Clowns from Vaudeville to Today's Stand-Ups described Ross as having a "Runyonesque sweetness and likeability despite his obtuseness (that) kept him performing...
- Feinsilber, Mike (1999). Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of AllusionsRunyonesque. Merriam-Webster. pp. 479–480. ISBN 978-0-87779-628-2. The Chambers Dictionary...
- Fairy Godfather, Don Bruce. Nunzio seldom talks, while Guido speaks in a Runyonesque dialect, which is explained as being an aftereffect of having been in...