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...Vegas, tinsel Gomorrha, held its own with 400 conventions, 600,000 delegates, $225 million. Attractions: 42,620 hotel rooms, 550,000 sq. ft. exhibition space, shows and gambling, what else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Hosts to the Most | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...earthquake made him a political leader. It came during the first Venezuelan revolt, and destroyed a quarter of the citizens of Caracas and their property in a few moments. In the main plaza, Bolivar found a priest, shouting: "Sodom and Gomorrha! To your knees! . . . God's arm has fallen on your heads in punishment!" Bolivar pushed the monk away, drew his sword and shouted: "Nature has joined forces with tyranny! She is trying to stand in our way. Forward! We will force her to obey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: El Libertador | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...formula, as printed in postcard form for handy mailing from "Bilgray's Tropic Bar & Restaurant": Babylonian Grape Brandy, Ice from the crest of Mount Sinai, Lemon from the desert of Sin, Gomorrha and Sodom Vermouth, Rum aged in Noah's Ark, Add Cain's Syrup from the garden of Eden, You then give it the Hebrew shake, and Say Hallelujah after drinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 7, 1932 | 3/7/1932 | See Source »

...tenable or not remains for experts to decide, but why becloud the issue of his charges of "woozyness" by attempting an analogy between two wholly unrelated subjects? When a man intimates that our habits might be worse if we were nearer New York, or Philadelphia--or Sodom and Gomorrha--he makes a statement that reflects credit neither on his logic nor on his ethical standards. Surely there is more than a saving remnant among the student body who deplore with Dr. Eliot the lawlessness and indecency that characterize the conduct of many of the undergraduates at both public and private...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 6/4/1920 | See Source »

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