speakeasies

Many Americans ignored Prohibition laws, drinking alcohol at secret bars and clubs known as "speakeasies."

NYT > Home Page By THE LEARNING NETWORK 2011

Prohibition in the United States (from 1920 to 1933) banned the sale of alcohol, but there were many illegal places, called speakeasies, where one could toss back a drink or two.

LearnHub Activities 2008

Despite the smoking ban – because of it, actually – Philadelphia now has "smoke-easies," a play on "speakeasies" that came to us with the Prohibition of alcohol.

Return of the ‘Speakeasies’ | Impact Lab 2007

Despite the smoking ban – because of it, actually – Philadelphia now has "smoke-easies," a play on "speakeasies" that came to us with the Prohibition of alcohol.

Return of the ‘Speakeasies’ | Impact Lab 2007

Should you be honeymooning in Chicago, there is a once-clandestine side to the "Windy City" which shouldn't be missed: the "speakeasies," the once hidden watering holes which flourished during Prohibition.

BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

After these anti-smoking laws become too cumbersome, we'll get our smoking "speakeasies" sorted out, just like the Prohibition days.

British Blogs 2009

In Manhattan alone, there were five thousand speakeasies at one point in the 1920s.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

From behind his desk in Hamilton Hall, Tugwell could not hear the music but he could see the nightclubs, dance halls, and speakeasies that defined the Jazz Age.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Women, who had been barred from most saloons before Prohibition, were welcome in speakeasies and became regular customers.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Thanks to him and other African-American music talents serving in the war, ragtime and blues jazz galvanized audiences overseas well before American whites would mingle with blacks in the speakeasies of the Prohibition era—or, as F.

The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010