cathouses

Great L.A. "cathouses" go back at least to the 1920s, showing up in the fiction of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich, among others.

The Heidi Chronicles 2008

"I could, of course, run off a thousand copies and sell them out of my greatcoat in local cathouses."

Jan Herman: The Mind Sashays Jan Herman 2011

"I could, of course, run off a thousand copies and sell them out of my greatcoat in local cathouses."

Jan Herman: The Mind Sashays Jan Herman 2011

She was expert at rimming -- that's what it was called in the cathouses of Nevada.

Beard 2010

How had he ever ended up writing about tongue sprain and Nevada cathouses?

The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010

His talent and charisma took jazz from the cathouses of Storyville to Broadway, television, and beyond.

The Top 100 2006

If NEOhio, or I, for that matter, desire the addresses of all the local cathouses, we are not looking for a lecture on venereal disease, just the addresses.

Realtor sites 2006

The joys of small-town life: good neighbors, tidy schools, the ole soda fountain and, of course, the cathouses and gambling halls.

Viva Li'l Vegas 2008

His talent and charisma took jazz from the cathouses of Storyville to Broadway, television, and beyond.

The Top 100 2006

But while there are some beautifully observed passages in this book, where the author's distinctive style forged into something new from such disparate influences as Faulkner, Ellison, Woolf and García Márquez takes over, the story as a whole reads like a gothic soap opera, peopled by scheming, bitter women and selfish, predatory men: women engaged in cartoon-violent catfights; men catting around and going to cathouses.

NO LOVE FOR LOVE TEV 2003