Gussie
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Young won for best featured actress in a play for her performance as Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins in the revival of Ossie Davis’s satire “Purlie Victorious.”
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2024
Friedman’s production is also a beguiling showcase for Krystal Joy Brown, who sinks her teeth ravenously into the role of Gussie, a driven, troublemaking actress.
From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2022
Gussie Busch died in 1989 and the brewery was sold to InBev in 2008.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2022
In his climactic speech at the Market Snodsbury Grammar School, Gussie Fink-Nottle ticks off “the fellow with a face rather like a walnut” who said the world was in a deplorable state.
From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2018
Gussie was indeed a fearful sight nursing that way and he looked not unlike a man with his foot on a bar rail, smoking a fat pale cigar.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
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