rum-hole

"If you are bound to run a rum-hole, Lem," said the plain-spoken doctor, "don't expect a woman in her condition to help you run it."

How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long

The news of Roosevelt's encounter in the "rum-hole" in Mingusville spread as only news can spread in a country of few happenings and much conversation.

Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

"Do you think I followed you from ship to ship, dragged you out of every rum-hole in every port, for your own sake!"

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

As a town officer you've let Ferd Parrott fun a cheap, nasty rum-hole, corruptin 'and ruinin' the manhood of Smyrna, and you've helped cover up this devilishness, though we, the wimmen of this town, have begged and implored on bended knee.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

They said it was a nasty rum-hole, and that they had reputations to preserve just as well as some folks who thought they were better because they had money.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

He did not know that there was such a verse in the Bible; but now he knew the fact, and it gave this boy, who had come out of a cellar rum-hole, and had mingled during his entire life with just such people as swarm around cellar rum-holes, a more distinct idea of the total depravity of this world than he had ever dreamed of before.

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

I wonder whether the rum-hole that sent them out in this condition was gilded and glittering, or was a veritable cellar stripped of its disguise?

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

Tode Mall, but it was long since it had occurred even to him that he was ever other than Theodore Mallery, the enterprising young proprietor of that favorite refreshment-room down by the depot; for the dry-goods box had disappeared, so also had the cellar rum-hole.

Three People 1841-1930 Pansy 1885

And then I'd have them cannibals jest trot that old man right round to every saloon and rum-hole he had rented and wuz a partner in the proceeds, and make him lay to and empty out every barrel and hogset of whiskey and beer and cider, and make him do the luggin 'and liftin' his own self.

Samantha at the World's Fair Marietta Holley 1881

But the most of these unfortunates would feel insulted did you accuse them of entering a rum-hole, a vulgar rum-hole!

Social relations in our Southern States, 1860