"What I really wanted to be was a Hemingway hero," the son wrote in his memoir, which was published 15 years after Ernest Hemingway's suicide in 1961.

He thought: this man likes to be thought a Hemingway hero.

The Hemingway hero with the most undiluted Hemingway in him.

Bojanowski's dog fighter is a Hemingway hero, violent, clean, a man of few words and a terrible romantic.

No doubt during a brief confounded pre-war stint Bogart was called upon to bring to life the gracefully pressured Hemingway hero.

Boxers, bullfighters, a lot of combat soldiers, Hemingway heroes, in short, are always gentle men.

The Hemingway hero, Time's essayist wrote, adheres to a personal code.

Hemingway wrote of his own ambitions in the shadow of his father's fame: "What I really wanted to be was a Hemingway hero."

The book sold well and young women began to emulate Brett and male students at Ivy League universities wanted to become "Hemingway heroes."

But for a time on Friday night, Ogden Phipps and Shug McGaughey probably felt like a certain Hemingway hero, whether they knew it or not.