gambling house
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Just how much of a draw the casino will be is the question of the hour, as MGM National Harbor became the sixth gambling house to open in Maryland.
From Washington Post • Dec. 9, 2016
Historically, “the act of running a gambling house was seen as a dishonorable business,” said Les Bernal, executive director of the anti-gambling group Stop Predatory Gambling.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 28, 2016
Jacks’ owners, Alan Sylvester and Darryl Agostino, remain adamant that they are not running an illegal gambling house.
From New York Times • May 6, 2010
When the Sherman Silver Act was repealed and the bottom dropped out of the silver market, Soapy went back to Denver and started a high-class gambling house.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It was a church, then a bank, then it was a restaurant and a fancy gambling house, and now we got it," Halley explained.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
