Word: danceland
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...Phony Booster, who peddles sleazier ties which he claims to have stolen but which he really bought very cheap. Paddy despises Mac as a racketeer but, as the dipsomaniac bouncer at Jollity Danceland tells him, soothingly, "It takes all kinds of people to make up a great city...
...Jollity Building is a semi-fictional corner of Times Square inhabited by the scum of Broadway. In the pool hall and in Jollity Danceland, which largely support the building, Mr. Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...
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