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Damon Runyon

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Noun1.Damon Runyon - United States writer of humorous stylized stories about Broadway and the New York underground (1884-1946)


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COLUMN: AREA NEWS, NOTES Greg Montalbano never got to pitch in Yankee Stadium, but some of his Worcester Tornadoes teammates will honor his memory while running through the new ballpark on Sunday in the Damon Runyon 5K Run/Walk for Cancer Research.
Despite the term's almost invariable appearance in a UK context, it was apparently invented by the American writer Damon Runyon in the 1930s.
But these characters, their grandiose slang, and their amusing adventures originated in the stories of Damon Runyon, who began life in Manhattan, Kansas, and ended as the most famous chronicler of that other Manhattan in the 1930s and '40s.
 
 
 
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