Crossword-Solution: DANCEHALLS 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

These girls work hard all day, and their homes aren't the right sort of homes, with hot dirty rooms,--full of quarreling and crowding; and so they slip out at night and meet their friends in the dancehalls, and the moving-picture shows.

And he learned his art--not only the rudiments of it but the final finished polish of it--in the dancehalls of Third Avenue, where the best slow-time dancers on earth come from.

She pictured that child of the streets and dancehalls, poor little "Lightfoot Ef," as they called her, struggling to better her condition, sturdily trying to find some tenable place of her own in life, even as she, Joan, was trying--but under what hopeless handicaps! She thought of the cocaine-drugged mother with ambitions; of the evil, treacherous creature with whom the child had chosen to "take a chance"; and it began to seem almost a miracle that Effie May should be what she was.

That very night there was a “regular party” in one of the old saloons and dancehalls that chanced, even after all these years, to be habitable.

Most of the superintendents reported stories of rebellion, escape, followed by the inexplicable “making good.” Many commented on fortunate marriages contracted because the girl strayed in forbidden paths, dancehalls, piers, rinks, cafés and other loafing places of Prince Charming.