Word: gomorrahism
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...waltz has happened to all popular music. It was once innocent, now provocative; once pellucid, now richly clotted; once elegant, now it delights in being barbarous. ... It is the difference be tween life in the Garden of Eden and life in the 'artistic' quarter of Gomorrah. . . . "The people who compose popular tunes are not musicians enough .to be able to invent new forms of expression. All they do is adapt the discoveries of great men to the vulgar taste. . . . Beethoven is responsible, because it was he who first devised really effective mu- sical methods for the direct expression...
...many complimentary votes for favorite sons. But the delegates were aweary, aweary; "they wished that they were dead." To save another roll call, they changed their votes to Nebraska's favorite. In just a few minutes it was all over. Hastily the delegates went, home from Sodom, from Gomorrah, home to the towns where fatted calves awaited...
...Crowd. The Rev. Ernest Thorn of Peckham, England, has gone to extreme lengths to solve the problem of lax church attendance. Last week he appeared before his flock as Abraham at the age of 127, and told the story of Sarah's death and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He asked the audience to refrain from applause, and requested that no one regard it as a performance. So great a crowd did he draw that he packed his church twice over. In this connection, it may be pointed out that the modern theatre arose out of the biblical plays...
Rooms 1-12, "Goofs of Gomorrah"--J. N. White, S. B. Colby, J. F. Keane, Jr., N. A. Cathcart, G. V. Smith, R. N. Johnson, P. N. Schuyler, L. A. Watkins, W. B. Martin, C. J. Warner, C. D. Perry; rooms 13-15, "Young Visitors,"--F. N. Arvin, Jr., H. B. Gerboth, H. Koch, Jr., H. W. Ott; room 16, "Deacon White,"--C. P. Swinnerton; rooms 17-28, "Wicked Wops"--H. M. Spelman, Jr., C. E. Masters, G. N. Carpenter, E. E. Allen, Jr., G. R. Payson, Jr., R. A. Thorndike, B. Prescott, Q. Howe, S. H. Ordway...