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Example sentences for: hammett

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Hammett had a taste for trying to slip censorable words past cautious editors, and he succeeded with gunsel , which sounds innocent enough to anyone who never heard it before.
-- Chris Hammett
“In the Queen's Parlor” specifically refers to Hammett's use of gunsel and describes him as meaning it in the “catamite” sense.
I thank Don Herron of Glen Ellen, California, the author of The Dashiell Hammett Tour , City Lights Press, for finding these citations.