Example sentences for: bogart

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  • I doubt that it is accurate to define gunsel as a `callow youth,' a sense that probably rubbed off from the character played by Elisha Cook, Jr. in The Maltese Falcon: though he was referred to (by Bogart, as I recall) as a `punk' and `gunsel' and was portrayed as ineffectual, that does not justify a transferred definition: gunsel , probably from Yiddish, is a less common, old-fashioned term for `gunman, body guard, torpedo, hit man,' and the like, simply a `criminal who carries a gun,' and needs no (additional) pejorative treatment.

  • Only 33 of them recognized it as the basis for the Bogart film; 3 agents offered to represent it.

  • Even RP aficionados will swoon over the old photos and footage of not only Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, and Joey (who does not make an appearance until hour three), but also of such silver-screen notables as Ava Gardner, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Lana Turner, Clark Gable, and Montgomery Clift.

  • In The Maltese Falcon , the Bogart character was probably using it as a general term of disparagement.

  • Either Bogart or Cagney must have said, “You ain't gonna pin this rap on me!


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