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...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-Oliver Pilat and Jo Ranson-Doubleday, Doran...
...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...
Year after the fire crime was more blatant, the police more useless than ever. From 1871 to 1894 Chicago had one active patrolman for every 20,000 residents. The Chicago Times in 1877 looked upon the rebuilt city, saw "orgies held there that . . . indicate that ancient Sodom and Gomorrah had phoenixed themselves somewhere in the neighborhood...