dramshops

The New York Times reported that prosecutors had secured indictments against half a dozen proprietors for "employing females in dramshops."

Women Behind Bars 2009

Steady, a nonunion tailor, tells his union neighbor Strike that labor organizing is responsible for "leading men to the dramshops" and that all journeymen's household budgets would be met if they lay

Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

Everywhere we need the church and schoolhouse, these being uplifting and elevating forces, while the distilleries and dramshops are mediums through which distress and want, sorrow and death, are brought into our midst in an inconceivably short time, carrying to untimely graves and everlasting woe hundreds -- yea, thousands -- who otherwise might be saved.

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When they paid him off he dodged the company gamblers and dramshops, and so they tried to kill him; but he escaped, and tramped it home, working at odd jobs, and sleeping always with one eye open.

The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

When they paid him off he dodged the company gamblers and dramshops, and so they tried to kill him; but he escaped, and tramped it home, working at odd jobs, and sleeping always with one eye open.

The Jungle 1906

Your inconsistency in dealing with known public nuisances is as remarkable as your extraordinary leniency with dramshops which absolutely destroy mothers and their children.

Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth, 1901

He cannot see warriors in the dramshops, but he can know what regiment is exercising.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

He knew about these discussions of the soldiers in the dramshops, and understood straightway that something disagreeable had happened to the heir, whom the troops worshipped.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

In those same places you will give the innkeepers and the keepers of dramshops barley, wheat, and wine, whatever is at hand, so that common men may have meat and drink free of charge.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

In dramshops and cook houses, especially of the Phoenicians, as well in

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879