Ossie
Britishadjective
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In line with the sometimes defiant sense of local "Ossie pride", Siegmund has often ridden the iconic local Simson bike, including to the polling booth Sunday in his hometown of Tangermuende.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Running all day on Saturday and Sunday, the festival begins on Friday night with two films focusing on the Black experience, starting at 7:30 p.m. with the Ossie Davis-directed “Black Girl” with screenwriter J.E.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
Goldblatt was friendly with the merchant Ossie Docrat and photographed several generations of the Docrat family dealing with their displacement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
There’s a picture of Dan Minahan, Pam Grier and Ossie Davis at the Sutton Place Hotel rehearsing, and having that photo is very, very meaningful to me.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2025
Once in the middle of one of our interviews, when we had been talking about something else, Malcolm X suddenly asked me, “Do you know Ossie Davis?”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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