| 词汇 | mcgurk-s suicide hall |
| 词源 | McGurk’s Suicide Hall. A New York City Bowery saloon of the 1890s. So named because so many people committed sui- cide in it: six in 1899 alone. Other colorfully named dives of the so-called genteel Gay Nineties included the Rat Pit, the Hell Hole, the Inferno, the Dump, and the Flea Bag. All were staffed with fearsome bouncers like Eat-’Em-Up Jack McManus of McGurk’s. |
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