Word: gomorrah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah...
...enough to invoke the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah on the tutoring schools. To demand their extermination is necessary but not sufficient. It is therefore required of the Crimson to clarify its stand by stating the practical objectives of its campaign. Obviously no proposals for reform can be directed at the tutoring parlors themselves; for spiders do not refuse flies. Nor can any requests to shun the schools be directed at the students; for they will attend so long as the Square establishments offer an easy out. It remains for the University to take action...
...libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs at the book's publication was trifling compared to the one which greeted the subsequent announcement, by 26-year-old Producer Howard Hughes (Hell...
...Alfred J. Case, Methodist pastor who lent his pulpit to Mayor Edward Ewing Roberts during his campaign for re-election last March. Recalling that Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals had called Reno a "compound of Sodom, Gomorrah and perdition," Dr. Case said that Reno's churches were wellattended, that the community in general was suffering no bad effects...
...ashen remnants of what seemed likely to be the fabulous and diabolical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were unearthed last week near the Dead Sea by the expedition of the Rome Pontifical and Biblical Institute. This startling rumor, tinder to adepts in yellow journalism, was disposed of by the sedate, scrupulous New York Times in three brief paragraphs on an inside page. The headline...