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He cannily associated the Bureau with Warner Bros' 1935 Jimmy Cagney vehicle, "G" Men, which helped seal the steely public image of the FBI.
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Twenty-four-year-olds are drinking sidecars, wearing chunky black glasses and buying tighter suits than Jimmy Cagney.
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And Jimmy Cagney – the most pusillanimously, quintessentially Irish-American actor of them all – was one-quarter Norwegian.
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Or sorry you weren't arc welded yourself, like Jimmy Cagney: Top of the world, ma!
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Davey was a foot shorter than Cy and looked and sounded as if his favorite pastime was watching Jimmy Cagney movies.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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Jimmy Cagney was the top star to resist the "tax" so far.
Greg Mitchell: Dispatches From Incredible 1934 Campaign: Hollywood -- and Earl Warren -- Hit Upton Sinclair Greg Mitchell 2010
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If we are Irish-American, as I am, it is incumbent upon us to admire all our Irish forebears who made such an impact on motion pictures during the Depression: Jimmy Cagney, Maureen O'Hara, Spencer Tracy, Pat O'Brien, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gene Kelly, Tyrone Power and Bing Crosby.
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Davey was a foot shorter than Cy and looked and sounded as if his favorite pastime was watching Jimmy Cagney movies.
The Rise and Fall of Bear Stearns Alan C. Greenberg 2010
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Eight police stood there at attention, and a lieutenant did the talking, a perfect Jimmy Cagney imitation with the light just right across his craggy face.
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(If only she's said "Top of the world, Ma," so that, like darling Jimmy Cagney in White Heat she could be blown up.) "I'm in Heaven right now."
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