A report that a poolroom was being conducted in the saloon of J.
A poolroom or a policy shop may open now and then, but it will quickly shut again if the police are in earnest.
The Wop spoke complainingly of the poolroom trade, which was even duller than trade at the Chatham Club.
He had showed himself ingenious when he took his poolroom into the Hatmakers' Union, as a safeguard against raids by the police.
Louie had called upon the Irish Wop, at the latter's poolroom in Fourth Avenue.
I leaves it lookin' like a poolroom that won't prodooce, after the wardman gets through.
He ducked into the door of the Old Home Poolroom and Restaurant.
For all that, he knitted his brows as his light wagon lurched past the Chinese laundry and the poolroom in the next block.
It was humiliating to feel that she had been the subject of a vulgar poolroom brawl.
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.
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.
They expect a boom at the settlement, and he'll manage the hotel and store and poolroom for Keller.
Did you boys hang around the poolroom after you would shoot pool?
You say you played darts with him and you would go to the poolroom beneath the apartment where he lived and shoot pool with him?
He dressed as a townsman; he frequented the poolroom and Gatty's doggery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
One of the fellows had formerly worked in a poolroom himself and he had the race code down as pat as butter.
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.
Well, when the whole crowd in the poolroom had become sort o' mute with expectancy and the betting at the desk was almost over, I got the signal.
I was on hand in the poolroom on the afternoon that we were to do business and I put a few dollars down on the first races at Morris Park, just for the sake of getting the ticket writers used to my face and to avert suspicion.
Indeed, as we found afterward, it was really in the afternoon that it was most crowded, for it was rather a poolroom than a gambling joint, although we gathered from the gossip that some stiff games of bridge were played there.
He kept on around the corner to the raided poolroom on the next street.
I wonder if it would be possible to get into that ladies' poolroom on the next street?
Another night--this was months later, though--he was killing time with some associate loafers in a poolroom in El Paso.
There was a poolroom pallor about this thin face, a poolroomstoop to his thin shoulders, that Mackenzie did not like.
The days were doing him good, all around, toughening his face, taking the poolroom pastiness out of it, putting a bracer in his back.
And he told his poolroom friend a tale of India and of two plain white stones that lay somewhere within the heart of it.
Why, they say that as far as anybody can find out, he's never give that poolroom man even one good talking to.
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.
You know Jake and some others were planning to run that poolroom man out of town, even whispering about tar and feathers.
So just you keep out of that there poolroom or I'll take you over to Doc Mitchell's and have every one of them there crooked teeth of yourn straightened out.
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.
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.
The boys in the Elite poolroom will tell you all about it.
The boys in the Elite poolroomstand grinning in the doorway.
We're goin' to the neatest and completest poolroom in all Manhattan!
But, under any circumstances, well guarded as thatpoolroom fortress stood, its resistance could be only a matter of time, and of strictly limited time, once the reserves were on the scene.
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.
This office is at present carrying on a campaign against Richard Penfield, the poolroom operator and gambler.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poolroom" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
