Definitions for damon runyon
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1. Runyon, Damon Runyon, Alfred Damon Runyonnoun

   United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)

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1. damon runyon

   Damon Runyon (1880-1946) was an American newspaperman, author, and playwright. He is best known for his short stories that celebrate the world of Broadway in New York City, often depicting characters such as gangsters, gamblers, actors, and hustlers. His style was characterized by a unique blend of formal language and slang, mixed with a distinctive present-tense narrative. His stories served as the basis for several stage and film adaptations, including the Broadway hit, "Guys and Dolls."

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1. Damon Runyon

   Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and author. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from the Brooklyn or Midtown demi-monde. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters, few of whom go by "square" names, preferring instead colorful monikers such as "Nathan Detroit," "Benny Southstreet," "Big Jule," "Harry the Horse," "Good Time Charley," "Dave the Dude," or "The Seldom Seen Kid." His distinctive vernacular style is known as "Runyonese": a mixture of formal speech and colorful slang, almost always in present tense, and always devoid of contractions. Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" and "Blood Pressure". The musical additionally borrows characters and story elements from a few other Runyon stories, most notably "Pick The Winner." The film Little Miss Marker grew from his short story of the same name.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of damon runyon in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of damon runyon in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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