[
US
/ˈɹənjən/
]
NOUN
- United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)
How To Use Runyon In A Sentence
- Working with Mark Mescher, Runyon and De Moraes studied how the weed finds its prey.
- Runyon was a master of the short story.
- Runyon credits his drive to improve overnight mail service in urban areas for much of the shift in attitude.
- This Damon Runyon tale of Broadway in the 1940s, has a melee of characters including gamblers, nightclub performers and Salvationists seeking to reform wayward inhabitants of Times Square in New York.
- But pre-Mean Steets days, Runyon's stories of small-time gamblers, wise guys and schemers were classics of warmth and humour - which is why they lent themselves to musicals such as Guys and Dolls.
- Or he can go for an approximation, adopting a kind of Brooklynese, for example, but this would not evoke Döblin's louche Berlin milieu so much as Damon Runyon's New York. [ The Genius of Berlin
- There are really no reliable ways to control this weed, short of using a flamethrower, " fellow researcher Justin Runyon says.
- Adapted from the short stories of Damon Runyon, the show put on stage for the first time the gamblers, gangsters and shysters of the area around Times Square.
- I take it you are a fan of this Runyon beezer too? Guys and Dolls need to use protection
- Runyon credits his drive to improve overnight mail service in urban areas for much of the shift in attitude.