rooming house
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On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022
“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
While Melvin Glover continued to make music with another member of the group, Scorpio, Mr. Glover was soon working a temp job and living in a modest Bronx rooming house.
From New York Times • May 4, 2022
As Macon and Freddie approached the yard, the women from the rooming house were hollering answers to Porter’s plea.
From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison
