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The Great Gatsby, side-street drugstores

I'd like to know if the word "side-street" in the following excerpt from the chapter Seven of The Great Gatsby is an equivalent of "side-street" in the sense of "underhand", "secret", "sleazy":

“I found out what your ‘drug stores’ were.” He turned to us and spoke rapidly. “He and this Wolfsheim bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol over the counter. That’s one of his little stunts. I picked him for a bootlegger the first time I saw him and I wasn’t far wrong.”

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How do Jay Gatsby form the great gatsby and John Proctor from the crucible compare?

three examples. when they both die, how does it compare?

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how does nick meet Tom's mistress

Tom's mistress

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The Great Gatsby, cool bedrooms

I'd like to know if in the following excerpt from the chapter Eight of The Great Gatsby the word "cool" means "fairly cold" or "fashionable", "attractive":

There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year’s shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.

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