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Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 71: A crowd of pimps, gamblers, pickpockets, and ‘strong arm guys’ attended a dance.at strong-arm man (n.) under strong-arm, adj.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 71: A crowd of pimps, gamblers, pickpockets, and ‘strong arm guys’ attended a dance. Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 114: The owner knows that the only thing we can let the house for is for a cat-house.at cat-house, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 15: In the more exclusive parlor houses ‘circuses’ or ‘shows’ are also given by way of stimulating business. These exhibitions are [...] vulgar.at circus, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 77: A ‘creep house’ is a place where women take men to rob them.at creep house (n.) under creep, v.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 149: Two plain clothes men, in passing a well-known hang-out, beckoned one of the owners [...] he returned, remarking to his comrades, ‘The ‘dogs’ are outside’. [Ibid.] 151: Every one of the ‘underdogs’ (i.e. plain clothes men) comes running to her every night with a different complaint.at dog, n.2
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 87: A young girl apparently eighteen years of age: She was the ‘fresh goods,’ – the object of the ‘line-up,’ as it afterwards developed. [Ibid.] 91: Hearing of places where business is better, owners and pimps shift their ‘goods’ about.at goods, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 95: My wife got sixty days for running this house the other day.at house, n.1
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 13: Some [...] take pride in their ability to ‘run in’ a lot of customers.at run in, v.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 6: A porter is employed to care for the house [...] a ‘lighthouse,’ to stand on the street for the purpose of procuring ‘trade’ and to give warning.at lighthouse, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 62: A ‘line-up’ is the ruin of a girl who flirts with men and accepts their advances and immoral suggestions. Finally she yields to a suggestion to visit a furnished room and the word quickly passes among the ‘gang.’ One by one the boys and men [...] visit this room.at line-up, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 65: She was ‘lined up’ [...] by a gang that ‘hangs out’ in a cigar store on East 14th Street.at line up, v.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 92: It is not uncommon for the girls as well as the customers to call her ‘mother’.at mother, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 90: A ‘pipe fiend’ and a gambler.at pipe fiend (n.) under pipe, n.1
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 17: The man is well versed in the art of ‘pulling’ customers into the house for which he works.at pull, v.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 68: Their halls may be rented [...] for the purpose of giving an ‘affair’ or a ‘racket,’ as a ball is sometimes called.at racket, n.2
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 291: The investigator was solicited on Sixth Avenue by a woman ‘runner’ to enter this house. She had been stopping other men.at runner, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 91: For a ‘shell of hop’ he would kill a dozen Chinamen.at shell, n.
Commercialized Prostitution in N.Y. City 14: Out-of-town visitors are not infrequently ‘steered’ by hotel porters and clerks.at steer, v.
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