Word: sodom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small wonder that attendance at the worship of God has suffered and with it knowledge of what constitutes genuine fellowship. The state of Sodom and Gomorrah was a teddy bears' picnic compared with the viciousness of the average parish life and its tribal customs, which in some cases are shockingly primitive...
...Often the last kick of indomitable individuality is against the accepted meaning of words, it is none the less a kick even if it misses its mark, like the legendary old lady who had always been under the impression that Cherubim and Seraphim were 'man and wife like Sodom and Gomorrah...
...people like to read stories and books that reek with sin, that shame the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, that shock and insult high heaven? It is because millions in America are honeycombed with impurity, vice, adultery and moral rot. When they read popular books and magazines that sanction this . . . they feel less guilty about their own sins...
...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...
...Sodom by the Sea, Newsmen Pilat and Ranson narrate with raffish gusto what they call "an affectionate history" of the "island" (which by filling in its dividing ditch has long since been firmly attached to the mainland). They tell all: the evolution of the amusement parks, side shows, steeplechases, sly games to trap sucker money; the fortunes made and lost by Coney financiers ; the fires that periodically gutted the wooden jungles, during one of which lions ran in the streets with manes on fire; a female exhibitionist who smoked cigars "in a peculiar manner"; a sailor who took his girl...