| 单词 | poolroom |
| 例句 | Gabriel discovered that they spoke, jokingly, of the comparative number of souls each of them had saved, as though they were keeping score in a poolroom. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z There were some in Salinas who began to talk softly in the poolrooms and the bars. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z These boys, now, who stood before drugstore windows, before poolrooms, on every street corner, who whistled after her, whose lean bodies fairly rang, it seemed, with idleness, and malice, and frustration. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The sharp-dressed young “cats” who hung on the comers and in the poolrooms, bars and restaurants, and who obviously didn’t work anywhere, completely entranced me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Bigger paused and looked round the poolroom with a wild and exasperated expression, his lips tightening with resolution. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was fear that had made him fight Gus in the poolroom. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Theirs was the Cadillac of clubhouses, sporting several parlors and a poolroom, a bounty of boxing gloves, baseball team jerseys, bats, and cleats, all paid for by their political patron, Frank Ragen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The poolroom was empty, save for a fat, black man who held a halfsmoked, unlit cigar in his mouth and leaned on the front counter. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, this dude come into the poolroom, and he knowed he was a good pool shot, see? So he hustled this other dude into a pool game for twenty dollars and beat him.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “I remember back home this boy come into a poolroom — ” “Where’s back home?” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That world of grocery stores, walk-up flats, cheap restaurants, poolrooms, bars, storefront churches, and pawnshops seemed to hold a natural lure for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Shorty’s slave in the poolroom, he said, was just to keep ends together while he learned his horn. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, something told me to go inside a poolroom whose window I was looking through. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Oscar went into a Filipino poolroom to phone, and when he came out there was quite a crowd around the body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He tried to decide if he wanted to buy a ten-cent magazine, or go to a movie, or go to the poolroom and talk with the gang, or just loaf around. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He listened awhile to her rubbing clothes on the metal washboard, then he gazed abstractedly into the street, thinking of how he had felt when he fought Gus in Doc’s poolroom. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The Street of the Turks echoed with a Saturday that lasted for several days and in the poolroom at the Hotel Jacob they had to arrange twenty-four-hour shifts. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I could design complete sets and figure out where everybody was, like the poolroom shootout in “Carlito’s Way.” 29 movies in, Brian De Palma still won’t play by Hollywood’s rules 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z In Los Angeles, he witnesses a police shooting in a poolroom and laments the despair and dissolution in his own community. The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Life Stories 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z In 1961, Clarence E. Gideon was arrested and accused of breaking into a poolroom and stealing money from a cigarette machine. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Clarence Earl Gideon went to prison for breaking into a poolroom in Florida. Magruder's American Government 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z It was reported that Musselman owned 35 to 40 pinball machines used in taverns, poolrooms and clubs across the city. Kokomo leaders look to reverse law prohibiting pinball 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z He told us all very soberly one afternoon that he had a good thing, but that he didn't want to hurt his own ring, so he'd send his money to the out-of-town poolrooms. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z His gaze was to the sidewalk, his mind upon the poolrooms, his thick, pendulous lower lip quivered with incessant, inaudible repetition of race-track names and records. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z He felt that in the restaurants and poolrooms there lay the sort of sporting gossip he ought to pick up for his column. The Boy Grew Older 2011-05-10T02:01:01.027Z He had slugged a man over the turn of a card in a poolroom pinochle game, had been arrested in due course, and was awaiting the disposal of his case. Deadly City It even states that one poolroom operator was arrested on a charge of keeping a gambling device after paying off two plain-clothes state troopers for a “hit” on one of the machines. Kokomo leaders look to reverse law prohibiting pinball 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z It was after 4 o'clock by this time, and the poolroom was filling up with young fellows turned loose from the down-town offices. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z The days were doing him good, all around, toughening his face, taking the poolroom pastiness out of it, putting a bracer in his back. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek If the turf could only unearth a thoroughbred as reliable as Vardon, poolrooms in Greater New York would be past history in very short order. The Complete Golfer The well-lighted poolroom near the village store will attract more boys than the building on the village edge that must be reached through the dark. Church Cooperation in Community Life He kept on walking till he found himself passing the entrance of a low poolroom. Luke Walton He entered the poolroom alone, looked up at the board, and then dug a bit of paper, obviously a telegram, out of his Oxford cloth Newmarket overcoat. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z There was a poolroom pallor about this thin face, a poolroom stoop to his thin shoulders, that Mackenzie did not like. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek On the way out again, I passed Henley's poolroom, where the cheap gamblers are still running their crooked betting on the Louisville and Lexington races. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play A village in Southwestern Ohio had a gang of "Roughnecks," as they were called, who were accustomed to loaf in the poolrooms and find their amusement in neighboring cities. Church Cooperation in Community Life A boy who has understood the spirit of Roberts, Seton, and Sharp is not likely to find the village poolroom attractive. Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes The poolroom operator announced, 'They're at the post at Morris Park,' and then I knew that 'ud be the last direct communication he'd have with Morris Park until after the running of the Belmont Stakes. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z What about Rosie and good looking Bella and her brother she was trying to rescue from the grip of the poolroom? Working With the Working Woman "Well, well!" says I. "Had an operator who'd tapped a poolroom wire and could hold up returns, didn't they?" Shorty McCabe on the Job The owner of a poolroom or a picture show that would place his building a half mile in the country would not have a large and enthusiastic patronage. Church Cooperation in Community Life People crowded to hear her at farmers' picnics in the mountains, in schoolhouses in small towns, and in poolrooms where chalked up on the blackboard she often found "Welcome Susan B. Anthony." Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian They had the thing all tested, and every dot and dash that reached the poolroom registered also in the second floor of that cottage. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z But we will meet at the picture show or at a local poolroom and I will hire you to take care of the baggage and the accessories as they come in. David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story Under the spell of it men try to stop drunkenness by closing the saloons; when poolrooms shock them they call a policeman; if Haywood becomes annoying, they procure an injunction. A Preface to Politics I don't mean to brag, but I know the location of every poolroom in the city! The Statesmen Snowbound But, under any circumstances, well guarded as that poolroom fortress stood, its resistance could be only a matter of time, and of strictly limited time, once the reserves were on the scene. Phantom Wires A Novel I was a bit nervous, but I knew that I had a pipe, and I also knew that the poolroom people had mighty little show to get next. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z At the present writing he is engaged in the poolroom and bookmaking line at Chicago and making a living, to say the least of it. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson I goes out of that poolroom on the jump 'n' runs all the way to the hotel. Blister Jones He had been a salesman on the road for five different concerns, had run a restaurant, a poolroom, and a moving-picture show, and had even been connected with a prize-fighting affair. Dave Porter at Star Ranch Or, The Cowboy's Secret It was obviously a poolroom, but it was unlike anything she had ever before seen. Phantom Wires A Novel The old-time poolroom people will tell you yet how they had to turn the box, a good many of 'em, the day that McKeever was hollered home at old Alexander Island. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z In those days poolrooms were a much greater evil than they are at the present time, and the betting on baseball was hot and heavy. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson Friendless ain't a mudder 'n' we has to have a fast track fur our little act of separating the green stuff from the poolrooms. Blister Jones "What do you know about that there poolroom, Mr. Lolly?" demanded Barney. Green Valley In the one, indeed, you might sedately purchase a perfecto, and take your peaceful departure, never dreaming of how closely you had skirted the walls of the busiest poolroom south of all Twenty-third street. Phantom Wires A Novel "Donna Rita at the quarter by five lengths!" called out the telegrapher, and the poolroom might have been taken for an Emancipation Day festival. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z If he gets it neither in school nor in the home he will find it on the street corner, through the vicious boy-leader of the degrading poolroom or the alleys. Religious Education in the Family I gets the change out on my way back to the poolroom. Blister Jones It was reported that there was to be no new barber shop, but that over on West Street a poolroom, also run by a city stranger, was already doing business. Green Valley Boys who hate to work are the kind that loaf around poolrooms and pollute the air with vile cigarette smoke and language which bespeaks an empty mind and a corrupt heart. Crayon and Character: Truth Made Clear Through Eye and Ear Or, Ten-Minute Talks with Colored Chalks My end of the job was to happen in the poolroom. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Anyhow, Freddie got next to Finnegan—he's worth several millions that he made out of policy shops and poolrooms, and contracts and such political things. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Now for instance, they were having winter racing in New Orleans and a syndicate was laying out each day's program in advance, and its agents in all the Northern cities were "milking" the poolrooms. The Jungle Uncle Tony says that he heard that the minister bought out the poolroom man, because some one saw the music box being hauled over to the minister's house. Green Valley Besides, there were two poolrooms and a wide street paved with asphalt, and brilliantly lighted down both sides. The Old Gray Homestead The poolroom took in thousands of dollars of Hamburg money, for nobody in the big crowd that surged about the poolroom could figure any other horse in the race to have a chance. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z The boys in the Elite poolroom stand grinning in the doorway. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago He could see the swing-doors of the bar, and hear the click of balls from the poolroom advertising the second of the town's distractions. The Nest Builder Why, they say that as far as anybody can find out, he's never give that poolroom man even one good talking to. Green Valley He was a short well—dressed black—haired boy with rings on his fingers who worked in the town poolroom, racking the pool balls. Marching Men They have their coin telegraphed in bundles to the poolrooms all over the country. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z The boys in the Elite poolroom will tell you all about it. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Are we going to be content with denouncing the dance hall and the poolroom and the vile pictures and the loose conduct of the soft-drink places and Electric Park? John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment She said she had no milk for the baby and no fire, that he was spending everything he earned in my poolroom. Green Valley It was a poolroom, too, then, in the daytime, she reasoned. Constance Dunlap Lumps of $20,000 and $30,000 have frequently been taken out of that poolroom on single tickets, and it's one of the few poolrooms where track odds are given. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z "I had her at work getting evidence against a ladies' poolroom in Forty-seventh Street—an elusive place that we've never been able to 'get right.'" Guy Garrick "Do you mean that I should rule my conduct to suit the ideas of the drunken loafers at the settlement poolroom?" The Girl from Keller's And he told his poolroom friend a tale of India and of two plain white stones that lay somewhere within the heart of it. Green Valley This would have given The People a Direct Primary law without a direct primary; an Anti-Gambling law that would neither close poolrooms nor interfere with bookmaking. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 I was to locate there by a dust-covered window that looked out of the poolroom across the big vacant lot to the frame cottage where the layout was installed and wait for the signal. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z There was, apparently, a full-fledged poolroom in one part of the house, closed now, of course, as the races for the day were run. Guy Garrick It was humiliating to feel that she had been the subject of a vulgar poolroom brawl. The Girl from Keller's That's why part of the town hangs out in the hotel, another part in the blacksmith shop, the kids in Joe's shoe shop or a poolroom. Green Valley Incidentally, however, it was discovered that the clerk of the important Senate Enrolling and Engrossing Committee had been an employee at Frank Daroux's notorious Sausalito poolrooms. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 A number of us took small chunks of 100 to 1 in the poolrooms in Cincinnati—wired our commissions over. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z I wonder if it would be possible to get into that ladies' poolroom on the next street? Guy Garrick Some time after Festing reached the settlement, Wilkinson and three or four others sat, smoking, in the poolroom. The Girl from Keller's But he wasn't in the poolroom business any more. Green Valley These uncertain ones were blocked in their plan of action because the proponents of the Anti-Gambling bill knew just what they wanted to do, namely, close up poolrooms and bookmakers' booths. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909 "Drive like the devil to ——'s!" he shouted to the driver, and in something under three minutes he had rushed into the upstairs poolroom about four blocks from his office. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z He must have gone through the tunnel to the ladies' poolroom, but after he left that, presumably, I can't find a trace of him. Guy Garrick She said nothing to Charnock about her visit, but started for the settlement next morning and informed herself about what had happened at the poolroom and what people thought. The Girl from Keller's You know Jake and some others were planning to run that poolroom man out of town, even whispering about tar and feathers. Green Valley In the afternoon they would retire to the poolrooms and play the races, and, when the races were over, they would then visit the faro banks and gamble until midnight or later. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life "He raided a poolroom I was working at," he explained. Vera, the Medium "But she isn't alive," concluded Garrick, "and there is nothing to show that there was anyone else at the poolroom for women who interested him—and—well, this isn't getting back to business." Guy Garrick They expect a boom at the settlement, and he'll manage the hotel and store and poolroom for Keller. The Girl from Keller's The two most vital being "What do you make of that new saloon keeper and his wife?" and "What goes on behind those poolroom curtains, especially nights?" Green Valley Second story—Chinks and chop suey; third floor—manicures and foreign missions; fourth floor—poolroom. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million Soon after Festing started for British Columbia Sadie drove over to the farm; because she had heard about the fight in the poolroom and suspected why he had gone. The Girl from Keller's He kept on around the corner to the raided poolroom on the next street. Guy Garrick When a farmer who hasn't much money loafs about the poolroom and lies on his back, smoking, it's plain that he's taking advantage of somebody else. The Girl from Keller's Timothy was the man who up till the day before yesterday had owned and run the poolroom. Green Valley The grocery in the next block, and the poolroom, bore the same owner's name. The Girl from Keller's For all that, he knitted his brows as his light wagon lurched past the Chinese laundry and the poolroom in the next block. The Girl from Keller's The "plant," in short, consisted in writing a long and circumstantial story of the discovery of new evidence against the ladies' poolroom, which so far had been scarcely mentioned in the case. Guy Garrick He would sooner have gone to the poolroom, but there was a risk of his meeting Sadie at the settlement. The Girl from Keller's Well, I expect he deserves all he got, and remember the satisfaction it gave me to throw him out of the poolroom. 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