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Sex, Vice & Business 24: A "hostess" is a B-girl and a B-girl is a bar girl hired to keep you drinking and buying drinks for her at approximately one dollar a shot. A girl's ability is measured [. . .] by the number of drinks she can persuade the customer to buy for himself and her. Sex, Vice & Business 95: [S]ometimes the fast-buck operator just picks up the money orders and the cash, and decamps . Sex, Vice & Business 52: Usually, after sparring a bit, he gives us what he thinks is the business—how pretty we are, what a beautiful dancer, what a build. Sex, Vice & Business 8: Bust-out joints, of which there are some two dozen in Newport, got their name from the recognized practice of not letting a customer out until he's ‘bust,’ one way or the other. Sex, Vice & Business 90: [N]either the Government nor anyone else apparently gives a whoop if citizens [...] are protected. Sex, Vice & Business 97: Last year Philadelphia was rocked by a sensational case [. . . .] Out of the evidence came the story of sex orgies at a secluded estate aptly named Hound Dog Hill. Sex, Vice & Business 51: .] [I]t don't seem to matter to [men] if they pin your ears back with big business deals they put over or just bragging about the women they flipped’. Sex, Vice & Business 28: [Men] who futz around not knowing how to come out with it until you practically got to tell 'em what they want to say. Sex, Vice & Business 62: Another bit of ‘hoke’ which has stood the test of time is the one where the master of the house opens the door to a pretty girl who asks demurely, ‘Is this the house where I am to be maid?’. Sex, Vice & Business 128: The plainclothesman's ears were greeted with an unseemly but real-gone rock-and-roll hotch-cha coming over a radio. Sex, Vice & Business 24: Baltimore has an ordinance against B-girls, who are legally termed ‘sitters.’ To circumvent this ordinance, many proprietors put the ladies on the payroll [. . .] which magically changes them from ‘sitters’ into ‘hostesses’. Sex, Vice & Business 116: I was in a bar when a man came in and announced [...] that he had been to a real party the night before and needed one to straighten himself out. Sex, Vice & Business 90: [used to indicate distance] The town's main street is a wolf's whistle away from the customs gates.