Sentence examples for sporting house from inspiring English sources
Esther sews the same provocative corset for Mrs. Van Buren (Arija Bareikis), the Fifth Avenue socialite, as she does for Mayme (Lauren Velez), the sporting house pianist and whore.
Brown, who is thirty-six, a college graduate, and the son of a minister, used to play trombone for Aimee Semple McPherson in the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, a fact which disturbs some of his admirers, who, with the reverse morality of jazz fanciers, would prefer that he had begun his career in a sporting house.
Opened last December in the former Las Vegas Sporting House, the hangar-size establishment is scaled for giants, with a 400-seat showroom, a 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-foot 6,000-square-footfrestaurantpandons watch women performing Bada Bing-style gyrations against a backdrop of Lakers games projected on a colossal screen.
The cheers from Germans were of relief, while those of the many Brazil fans inside the Maracana - relieved that they would be spared the nightmare of an Argentina World Cup victory in their own sporting house - were of mockery.
He then played at Annie Gilly's sporting house, another rough establishment, before becoming well known enough to play throughout the city and win a number of national piano concerts.
With the start of the baseball playoffs on hyperdrive and the N.F.L. season in full attention-hogging mode, Sunday felt like a day spent in a sports fun house.
Sporting houses had displays at show.
There are photographs of old jazzmen, letters that testify to the hard lives they lived, a map of Storyville "showing the principal sporting houses".
The place is New York, a city of opulent balls and raffish sporting houses; opera, vaudeville and ragtime; old-line aristocrats and immigrants from every country in Europe and every state in the American South.
The necessary titillating anecdotes are there: the parent making a special plate of food for a picky teenager to take to a party, 10-year-olds at camp who don't know how to dress themselves, parents requesting that their child be assigned to a "sports house" that matches their favorite color.
"It's just one of the all-time great baseball cards," says Robert Lifson, president of Robert Edward Auctions in Watchung, N.J., a sports house similar to Memory Lane.
