| Maybe the machine covered only the area around the various banks, speakeasies, bars and horse parlors. |
| But like American speakeasies during prohibition in the USA, these places are oases in a desert of official prudery. |
| Her poetry anthology Enough Rope was a bestseller and her life was a procession of speakeasies, doomed affairs and half-hearted suicide attempts. |
| The Swing Kings will transport you back to a time when gangsters roamed the back rooms of speakeasies and couples found romance in the music. |
| The popular conception of Prohibition is that speakeasies abounded, gangsters and bootleggers of all sorts flourished, and every American gladly flouted the law. |
| The tale gallivants from London to Boston to Cairo, stopping in at circuses, speakeasies, ocean liners, and the well-appointed apartments of an invert. |
