Sentences with phrase «in gambling dens»

Historically, political parties had their origins in gambling dens — they were a ruse put together by adventurers.

Lando hangs out in a gambling den for a good chunk of the film, a setting that also allows for a showcase of the film's many cool, new alien designs.

Not exact matches

And it's only about 30 minutes from the high - stakes gambling dens of Monte Carlo, made famous in James Bond films.

It was in any case Europe's great pleasure capital, with a flourishing high culture» literature, theater, art» and, on the wicked end of the spectrum, an abundance of high «class brothels, gambling dens, casinos, and race tracks.

The state shut down the New York City OTB in 2010 after the public corporation — which operated about 50 storefront gambling dens and served as a patronage mill for crooked political hacks — went bankrupt.»

Two men were shot dead and another wounded April 21, 2000 during a robbery at a gambling den at this house at 222 Burt St. in Syracuse, N.Y..

The old gold - mining town, once bustling with saloons, brothels, gambling halls, and even opium dens, is now a ghost town, probably the most famous one in America.

Molly teaches herself about Texas hold»em and the vices of rich men, and then saunters around her high - end gambling den like a unimpressed demigoddess in designer stilettos.

She conjured up the roiling, riotous art camp that was East 10th Street in the 1950s, her home before this one; the leaky, cold - water lofts that she, Mr. Resnick, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning and other members of the New York School colonized; the endless coffee fueling the endless, passionate debates; the feuds and factions; and the constant, hilarious presence of the F.B.I., trawling for the operators of the Mafia gambling dens the artists unwittingly shared space with.

Modern London's art history starts with William Hogarth, who in the Georgian age dwelt on mad houses and gambling dens, brothels and workhouses.