(1) That first winter, I kept my little $85-a-month flophouse room in town.(2) Three months ago, he was hired on at a small Pan-Asian restaurant next to the old flophouse Madison Hotel.(3) The battles are mostly unspectacular - an arrest at an airport or in a seedy Pakistani flophouse , perhaps the occasional CIA or Mossad assassination.(4) they are living in a flophouse and discovering that the streets are not paved with gold(5) Gail is sharing a room in a well-known downtown flophouse for $250 a week.(6) In 1986, for instance, the place rolled and tumbled in the enormous sunken pit left by a fatal San Francisco arson fire eleven years earlier that had burned a flophouse to the ground.(7) On December 2, 1913 twenty-seven lives were lost when a South End flophouse , the Hotel Acadia, burned to the ground.(8) Her Maria is moody, yet restrained, whether enduring a tense interrogation by U.S. customs officials, or imprisonment in a New Jersey flophouse with bored thugs waiting to collect the excreted pellets.(9) With deadpan humor, she shot Sunshine Hotel in a flophouse , its name proclaimed by besmeared ceramic tiles mounted on a scarred red wall.(10) The very first scene is one of death - a neighbor lady has died, and Turtle, after some skirmishes with local boys, claims her house and uses it as a bordello / flophouse .(11) Against her better judgment, Aunt Martha agrees to provide free room and board in return for help with the housekeeping in her glorified skid-row flophouse .(12) Little do they know, but those reprehensible little globes of gluttony are now living in the basement of Annie and Johnny's flophouse .(13) As for the state-run addict hotels, they quickly became as rife with filth and violence as any Vancouver flophouse .(14) Her mom is a trifling tramp, and her brother is stuck in that dead-end service industry job, dividing his money between a flophouse hotel room and the local drug kingpin.(15) Nevertheless, she and her staff have found that a demand exists for what flophouses offer: a cheap, secure place to stay a short time without having to answer any questions.(16) As his second decade wore on, he wandered round the country staying in flophouses , rooming houses and cheap hotels - drunk, obviously, most of the time throughout the Forties, and excused by a psychiatrist from wartime military service.
