Sentences with phrase «in pool halls»

At the wheel was his great - nephew Gennaro, a handsome, curly - haired youth known in the pool halls as Jerry.

Unlike the founding sportsbook bookmakers such as Vaccaro and Reizner, Kornegay hadn't spent his youth gambling in pool halls or the pavilion at Fenway.

If the day of the Lord was at hand, only the foolish would while away their time in a pool hall or by watching television.

One fight scene, set in a pool hall, is completely gratuitous; and Chan's major stunt (sliding down a long banner) is kids» stuff compared to the more outrageous feats he's done in the past.

How do you think having the gun pointed at Paula in the pool hall by Oakleigh's husband became a pivotal changing point for Paula?

I think it is safe to say that he spent more time in the pool hall (yes, hustling) than the library.

Not exact matches

The office also offers a teepee to work in (no, really) and a pool hall.

It includes a chapter on domestic life that reviews how and where single men lived; a chapter on associations such as the YMCA and YMHA, which sprang up in these years to offer support, wholesome company, and structure to bachelor life in the city; a chapter on bachelor - frequented institutions (a rather more dignified term than most readers would choose) such as the saloon, the pool and dance halls, and the barber shops.

Rather they depict a dismal existence in the cafes, locker rooms, and pool and dance halls of the time.

Their new home, in the Catholic Church, was a small 1960's concrete dual use hall / chapel with a tiny altar (on wheels), a pool table stored in the confessional and a defunct freezer in the sacristy used for laying out the vestments.

Set on top of a hill, it had French gardens stocked with magnolia trees, a music hall and outdoor theater, a restaurant, a day - care center, a pool in the shape of the letter J, a miniature golf course, and children's play areas with water slides, games, and rides.

Corley owned a restaurant in a shopping mall, and Corriveau owned an arcade and pool hall that was located across from the eatery.

In some draft years the quarterback pool is weak; in others it's a bonanza of future Hall of Famers and franchise passerIn some draft years the quarterback pool is weak; in others it's a bonanza of future Hall of Famers and franchise passerin others it's a bonanza of future Hall of Famers and franchise passers.

Ray Watson owns one duck blind and leases another near Mound City in the Missouri River bottoms, and he keeps an apartment over a pool hall in Mound City because of its convenience to the blinds.

By his teens he was spending his off - hours at pool halls and in the pavilion at Fenway Park, where even after the Black Sox scandal the gamblers still held sway.

His real education came from time spent in Youngstown's pool halls, barrooms and back alleys, wherever men gathered after work to let off steam, play craps and bet on the ponies, a boxing match or the ballgame.

However, if you continue down Highway 25, you'll find yourself on the dark side of the Lake Greenwood, where fearless young men with fast cars and too little to occupy their time meet in small pool halls for jumbled up stories, quick laughs and, even quicker, reach for their guns if you aren't careful.

This BUCS event will be held in the sports hall, cricket school, and on the running track from around 7.30 am to 4 pm, before the pentathletes move to the Rosenblatt swimming pool at 4 pm.

The boys dug tunnels under it for war games, and in the winter they iced over the macadamized part for hockey, so they had plenty to do without hanging around pool halls.

The agreement was proposed by the city, which needed land where the park pool currently is located in order to accommodate City Hall expansion.

Or consider JB Priestley's account of travelling out of London in 1933 along the Great Western road and confronting the endless, low - density exurbia of ribbon sprawl: «We might suddenly have rolled into California... This is the England of arterial and by - pass roads, of filling stations and factories that look like exhibition buildings, of giant cinemas and dance - halls and cafes, bungalows with tiny garages, cocktail bars, Woolworths, motor - coaches, wireless, hiking, factory girls looking like actresses, grey - hound racing and dirt tracks, swimming pools, and everything given away for cigarette coupons.»

His call was backed by New York's Congressional delegates including Representatives John Hall (D - NY), Maurice Hinchey (D - NY), Eliot Engel (D - NY), Nita Lowey (D - NY), and Senator Charles Schumer (D - NY) and then - Senator Hillary Clinton (D - NY), who introduced legislation in February 2007 that would require an in - depth review of Indian Point's vital safety and mechanical systems, spent fuel pools, and radiological emergency evacuation plans.

At a town hall meeting in the borough in April, de Blasio took responsibility for failing to secure the money and announced he would allocate $ 50 million to build an indoor pool in Staten Island.

At the town hall, de Blasio said he would restart discussions with the Salvation Army to bring a similar facility to the area, and said the new indoor pool could be built there or at another location in the borough.

Weeks before Mayor Bloomberg pulled the rug from under the epic disaster known as Cathie Black, a ghoul pool was launched in the halls of city government.

I am proud to have had a leadership or ancillary effort in these major accomplishments of this town board,» noted LaMonda in a statement / invitation to Olive Democrats, listing a number of accomplishments from senior housing creation and the purchase of the town meeting hall to the bringing of a sewer system to Boiceville and building of the town pool complex.

The city's six spray pools in South Troy, Knickerbacker, Prospect, Frear, Corliss and Riverfront parks are open at no cost from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Ulster County: • Family of Woodstock at 16 Rock City Rd in Woodstock from 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM • Lloyd Town Hall at 12 Church Street in Highland • Wawarsing Town Hall at 108 Canal Street in Ellenville from noon to 4 PM, except Wednesday when it will be open from 2 - 4 PM • Ulster County Community Action's new community room at 70 Lindsley Avenue in Kingston from 8:30 - 4:30 PM.

Raised in the rough - and - tumble town of Hutchinson, Kansas, Wells got into fights and hung around pool halls.

In the pools, found in all six of Fukushima's reactor halls, radioactive decay gradually heated the wateIn the pools, found in all six of Fukushima's reactor halls, radioactive decay gradually heated the watein all six of Fukushima's reactor halls, radioactive decay gradually heated the water.

Head out to the pool hall for a friendly game with your brother in a pair of blue denim shorts, black rocker T - shirt, and a pair of brown flip - flops for men.

At Las Casas you will find the staff in their period appropriate attire ready to serve you amazing food and drinks, pulling horse drawn carriages, operating trolleys or other period relevant recreations like soda stands, bakeries, pools, pool halls, dance clubs, all with an old fashioned theme.

I like to go hang with friends, family, hit the movies, pool halls, video arcade area sometime i think you have to still have a little kid in your self, and more...

In the new film, he gives one fond and musing speech — «I grew up lookin» at Oklahoma, from the south bank of the Red River» — that may be the most placid interlude in any Friedkin film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life clatters on or comes to a lonely halIn the new film, he gives one fond and musing speech — «I grew up lookin» at Oklahoma, from the south bank of the Red River» — that may be the most placid interlude in any Friedkin film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life clatters on or comes to a lonely halin any Friedkin film, and the cinematographer, Caleb Deschanel, backs it up with some tack - sharp images of busy pizza parlors and empty pool halls, where life clatters on or comes to a lonely halt.

A woman holds and drinks from a glass of liquor in several scenes throughout the movie, a woman pours alcohol from a flask into a thermos cup with coffee while watching her young daughter skate, two women guzzle beer from cans in a hotel room, a woman drinks shots of liquor at a pool hall, two men hold and drink from beer bottle in several scenes in a home and a strip club, a woman drinks from a flask, and a woman drinks a glass of wine at a dinner table.

Multiple genre cliches are affectionately trotted out — the trenchcoats, the cigarettes, the Venetian blinds, the clattering typewriters, the alleys, the pool halls, the gambling parlor, the clattering typewriters, the shadowy stalkers, the apartment trashed in a futile search, the gun pointed through a pocket — as Hammett pursues both the lost girl and an overdue manuscript which he has foolishly dropped.

The poorly directed «Turn the River» wastes a good cast in a failed attempt to capture the atmosphere of smoke - filled pool halls by going for a melodramatic premise that ends on a false note.

THE 1980s were a decade that gave us such hits as An American Werewolf in London and Teen Wolf, plus the indelible image of Tom Cruise howling along to «Werewolves of London» while hustling pool halls in The Color of Money.

The film crew was stopped, questioned and «told to wait at a nearby pool hall, in the middle of nowhere.

This is a smart film that arrives in theaters just about the time that the Electoral College will vote a disastrous choice by mandate of «the people,» putting in office a man that received only 27 % of the votes of those who were eligible to cast ballots and who will take his place in the White House because forty - three percent of registered voters stayed home on Election Day (or went to a bar, or pool hall or whatever.)

In this dark, agile, sinewy cinema tale of the world of pool halls, pool hustlers and the gamblers who exploit them, Paul Newman plays the brash, cocky young pool shark Fast Eddie Felson.

Until Rossen directed another classic noir in 1961 (the gritty black - and - white pool - hall saga «The Hustler,» with Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason and George C. Scott) «All the King's Men» remained his best film.

Three quarters of sports halls and artificial sports pitches and a third of swimming pools in England are located in schools, enjoyed by children during term time but left dormant during the holidays or in the evening.

Currently, 76 per cent of sports halls, 73 per cent of artificial grass pitches, 29 per cent of swimming pools and 52 % of grass pitches in England are located within the education sector.

the school building in which the incident occurred or whose real property boundary line includes the athletic playing field, playground, parking lot or land on which the incident occurred, and whether the incident occurred in a classroom, laboratory, hall, staircase, gymnasium, locker room or pool, cafeteria, bathroom, auditorium, playground or athletic field or otherwise on school grounds; or

In winter an open fire burns in the Great Hall, while in Summer conference delegates will enjoy the courtyard and pooIn winter an open fire burns in the Great Hall, while in Summer conference delegates will enjoy the courtyard and pooin the Great Hall, while in Summer conference delegates will enjoy the courtyard and pooin Summer conference delegates will enjoy the courtyard and pool.

All local alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks during the meals in the restaurant, at the pool bar and in the discotheque with the seal «all inclusive» are included until 23:00 h. All drinks ordered at the Bar Hall are excluded.

The luxury hotels in Coorg also feature private pools, spa, exciting adventures, banquet halls and technology equipped conference hall which are perfect to hold great gatherings and business related communications respectively.

Indoors: • Four bedrooms, three bathrooms (main en - suite with spa bath and dressing room) • Formal lounge and living room • Dining room (double volume with large picture window) • Fully equipped kitchen • Entrance hall • Games room with pool, air - hockey and soccer tables, dart and chess boards • Laundry area • Additional sleeping facilities can be arranged in the very large games room which is the highest room in the Villa with its own patio and unobstructed views of the whole of Camps Bay • Integrated hi - fi, DSTV dish (satellite) and video system.

Hannah's Beach Resorts boasts a complete leisure activities and facilities like the in - house restaurants, karaoke bar, huge swimming pool, multi purpose hall, cottages and nipa huts, gym and wellness center and so much more which your family, friends and loved ones will certainly enjoy.

On site amenities at this family - friendly accommodation include comfortable guest rooms fully renovated in June 2010, wireless Internet access in the public areas, lounges, coffee shop, restaurant, banquet halls with a capacity of up to 300 people, garage parking as well as indoor pool, front desk open around the clock and even an amazing disco.