*Tad* Dorgan was a well-known San Francisco cartoonist who, among other claims to fame, coined the phrase "hard-boiled".
I suspect it's just a confluence of Irish names, but I am chamed by the list of Tad Dorgan-associated slang—I'd heard the claim about "hard-boiled," but I just encountered "Nickelnurser" the other night as the surname of a skinflint character in an early Buster Keaton short.
Sounds like an interesting movie. I shall have to recommend it to Kestrell, as a possible discussion topic for her Gothic scholars group.
I would love to hear what a group of Gothic scholars make of some of these strains of female-focused film noir, which were generally described—like most films now classified as noir—as melodramas at the time.
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I suspect it's just a confluence of Irish names, but I am chamed by the list of Tad Dorgan-associated slang—I'd heard the claim about "hard-boiled," but I just encountered "Nickelnurser" the other night as the surname of a skinflint character in an early Buster Keaton short.
Sounds like an interesting movie. I shall have to recommend it to Kestrell, as a possible discussion topic for her Gothic scholars group.
I would love to hear what a group of Gothic scholars make of some of these strains of female-focused film noir, which were generally described—like most films now classified as noir—as melodramas at the time.