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  • In fancy, he placed the sawmills, the big trading stores, the saloons, and dance-halls, and the long streets of miners 'cabins.

    Chapter IV 2010

  • And Myrtle -- for all the world one of Gainsborough's old English beauties stepped down from the canvas to riot out the century in Dawson's dance-halls.

    CHAPTER 11 2010

  • Parents sell their wholesome country homes because of their children, and go where there are grand churches, superior schools, and attractive libraries, to find themselves in close proximity to drinking saloons, dance-halls, gambling dens, and indescribable allurements to vice.

    Cities and Crime 2008

  • But they'd lost no time: already they had a mayor and corporation, and a Grand Central Hotel, and a bath-house and stores and theatres and saloons and gaming-houses and dance-halls, with clerks and barbers and harlots and shopmen and traders and drink enough to float a ship, and everyone beavering away like billy-o and doing a roaring trade.

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • Parents sell their wholesome country homes because of their children, and go where there are grand churches, superior schools, and attractive libraries, to find themselves in close proximity to drinking saloons, dance-halls, gambling dens, and indescribable allurements to vice.

    Cities and Crime 2008

  • To read this book is to be totally transported to the dance-halls and night clubs of 1950's New York.

    Archive 2005-05-01 Sharon Bakar 2005

  • To read this book is to be totally transported to the dance-halls and night clubs of 1950's New York.

    Tea with Oscar Sharon Bakar 2005

  • She was a Personality, in the tradition of Lily Langtry and the like who had come to the city through the dance-halls and cabarets of the West.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • She was a Personality, in the tradition of Lily Langtry and the like who had come to the city through the dance-halls and cabarets of the West.

    Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

  • They were the Bunch, wise and beautiful and amusing; they were Bohemians and urbanites, accustomed to all the luxuries of Zenith: dance-halls, movie-theaters, and roadhouses; and in a cynical superiority to people who were “slow” or “tightwad” they cackled:

    Babbit 2004

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