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Lights & Shadows 523: [T]here are [in New York] about 5000 women of ill-fame, known as such, living in 600 houses of prostitution, and frequenting assignation and bed-houses.at bed-house (n.) under bed, n.
Lights & Shadows 523: [T]here are [in New York] about 5000 women of ill-fame, known as such, living in 600 houses of prostitution, and frequenting assignation and bed-houses. Lights & Shadows 219: ‘Well, how he did blow about it an’ said how he wouldn’t take it’.at blow, v.1
Lights & Shadows 219: [I] says to the Boss, ‘There’s a man ridin’ free on this line. All the fellows knows him; he gives ’em all a ten dollar note and they can’t break it’.at break, v.4
Lights & Shadows 180: Attached to the Station House [...] is the prison [...] It contains fifty-two cells [...] Four of these [...] are somewhat larger than the others, and are humorously called by the force ‘Bridal chambers’.at bridal chamber, n.
Lights & Shadows 503: [T]he privacy of one’s own home is better than the publicity of a boarding-house, and a fuss with Bridget in one’s own kitchen preferable to a row with a landlady.at bridget, n.
Lights & Shadows 682: [H]e readily admits that ‘Bumming’ is a hard life, but he is confident that it is better than working for a living.at bumming, n.
Lights & Shadows 483: ‘I think ther’s somthen goen to bust now.’ Porgie’s friend had a keen scent for sensation [in a play].at bust, v.1
Lights & Shadows 388: Betty Mulligan, a pretty little butterfly well known to the lovers of the ballet as Mademoiselle Alexandrine.at butterfly, n.
Lights & Shadows 529: The man went up to the safe, took out a package of United States Bonds, and coolly walked out of the office.at cool, adv.
Lights & Shadows 366: ometimes it is a wife, daughter, sister, niece, or a mere female acquaintance he wishes watched; sometimes it is a business partner or a rival in trade he desires dogged.at dog, v.1
Lights & Shadows 729: The negroes are most inveterate policy players. They are firm believers in dreams and dream books. Every dream has a corresponding number set down in the books.at dream book (n.) under dream, n.1
Lights & Shadows 593: The panel houses are generally conducted by men, who employ the women to work for them. [...] The robberies nightly perpetrated foot up an immense aggregate.at foot up (v.) under foot, n.
Lights & Shadows 227: [H]is whole dress shabby and not overclean, and his pockets stuffed full of newspapers, and many have imagined that he ‘gets himself up’ so, in order to attract attention on the streets.at get oneself up (v.) under get up, v.1
Lights & Shadows 480: ‘Horace’ ‘went in,’ and his bony fists rattled away on the close-shaven pate of ‘Gums’.at go in (on) (v.) under go, v.
Lights & Shadows 724: [E]very effort is made to render the victim hazy with liquor, so that he shall not be able to keep a clear record in his mind of the progress of the [faro] game.at hazy, adj.
Lights & Shadows 219: ‘Well, he was the maddest fellow you ever seen; he was hoppin’!’.at hopping, adj.
Lights & Shadows 701: [R]espectable people rarely leave the cars in this dirty thoroughfare, and are heartily glad when they are well out of it [i.e. the ‘red light’ area].at out of it, adj.1
Lights & Shadows 255: The evening papers [...] are bought chiefly by persons who wish to read them at home after the cares and fatigues of the day are over, or to kill time in the cars on the way home.at kill, v.
Lights and Shadows of N.Y. Life 153: They patronize the drama liberally, but their preference is for what Olive Logan calls the ‘leg business’.at leg business (n.) under leg, n.
Lights & Shadows 581: Some have been drawn astray by villains; some have been drugged and ruined, and have fled to these places [i.e. brothels] to hide their shame from their friends; some have adopted the life in order to avoid poverty.at life, n.
Lights & Shadows 247: Over fifty newspapers and literary papers, besides magazines and books innumerable, are printed by this monster engine.at monster, n.
Lights & Shadows 285: The great operators plunder and destroy their lesser rivals without a feeling of remorse, and [...] blast the prospects and ruin the lives of scores whose greatest fault is an inability to oppose them successfully.at operator, n.
Lights & Shadows 367: Whatever other foolishness they may commit, these adroit operators never kill the goose that lays their golden eggs.at operator, n.
Lights and Shadows of N.Y. Life 593: Panel thieving [...] is closely connected with street walking.at panel thief (n.) under panel, n.1
Lights and Shadows of N.Y. Life 542: Another class of those who live in open defiance of the law consists of the ‘Roughs.’ The New York Rough is simply a ruffian.at ruffian, n.1
Lights & Shadows 255: The Telegram is [...] a lively sheet, full of news and gossip.at sheet, n.
Lights & Shadows 306: It [i.e. the St. Nicholas Hotel] is popularly believed to be the headquarters of ‘Shoddy,’ and certain it is that one sees among its habitués an immense number of flashily dressed, loud-voiced, self-asserting people.at shoddydom (n.) under shoddy, adj.
Lights & Shadows 140: [T]he shoddy class was largely increased by those who were made suddenly and unexpectedly rich by lucky ventures.at shoddy, adj.
Lights & Shadows 388: They are ‘slow’ people, dull of comprehension, and to them the mysteries of their neighborhood are a sealed book.at slow, adj.
Lights & Shadows 68: [H]e was a member of the committee which had reported the resolution, but he had never heard of it till that moment, the scheme had been ‘sprung’ upon him.at spring, v.
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