Sentences with phrase «with gambling dens»
«The most important thing is customer protection, to ensure players are playing something that's fair, that the odds are going to be known to them, and the rates of outcome will be consistent — and that's the problem with gambling dens.
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When the original Lloyd's café degenerated into a petty den of stockjobbing and gambling during the 1760s, customers induced a waiter to open New Lloyd's Coffee House — with its own New Lloyd's List.
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 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.
Although opening with a smoky gambling den and an enigmatic woman on the periphery (Isabelle Adjani), Hill quickly switches lanes away from the recognisable landscape of film noir and heads for cheap motels, abandoned warehouses and nearly deserted streets.
Otherwise Gerry is rather endearing, a dorky, superstitious sad sack who forms an easy bond with happy - go - lucky fellow gambler Curtis (Ryan Reynolds), as they together tour casinos and gambling dens along the Mississippi river looking to make their fortune.
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.
When my grandmother bought me a little plastic roulette wheel (ah, the toys they thought were «appropriate» back then) he'd rub his hands together with glee at how «lucky» I was and wonder how he could sneak me into an illegal gambling den to make our fortune.