. . . the reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent. The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol - 第 185 頁Eric Burns 著 - 2004 - 345 頁有限的預覽 - 關於此書
| Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins - 1995 - 244 頁
...had been achieved but, rather, that a new era was dawning. "The reign of tears is over," he cried. "The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent" (Englemann, 1979, p. xi). There is no doubt that... | |
| Rod L. Evans, Irwin M. Berent - 1992 - 376 頁
...Nixon was undertaking an earlier 'drug war'.) "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories...now, women will smile, and the children will laugh. 1 lell will be forever for rent." That is how Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist and leading crusader... | |
| Bill Lawrence - 1995 - 286 頁
...Amendment went into effect, the famous evangelist Billy Sunday exulted: "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent." But John Barleycorn was not dead; he was only... | |
| Edward Behr - 1996 - 300 頁
...final resting place. "The reign of tears is over," he told a huge crowd. "The slums will soon only be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent." Ominously, in Chicago, within an hour of the Volstead... | |
| Edward Behr - 1996 - 300 頁
...final resting place. "The reign of tears is over," he told a huge crowd. "The slums will soon only be a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile, and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent." Ominously, in Chicago, within an hour of the Volstead... | |
| Charles T. Rubin - 1998 - 328 頁
...human affairs. Evangelist Billy Sunday's jubilation was not atypical: "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever for rent."23 With such expectations, it is hard to imagine... | |
| Thomas R. Rochon - 1998 - 306 頁
...ballplayer-turned-preacher Billy Sunday greeted Prohibition with the exclamation that "The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs" (cited in Rubin 1994: 12). Prohibition was the crowning achievement of the perspective linking inebriety... | |
| Jim Moore - 2001 - 412 頁
...love to hate you!" Each phrase punctuated by wild cheering, he shouted, "The reign of terror is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...corncribs. Men will walk upright now. Women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forever rent." Instead, the embryo of organized crime was fertilized.... | |
| Anne Cooper Funderburg - 2002 - 244 頁
...confidently predicted a rosy future for dry America. "The slums soon will be only a memory," he promised. "We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into storehouses and corncribs." The Dry Era, a grand social experiment that proved to be a colossal failure, lasted until 1933, when... | |
| Myles J. Kelleher - 2004 - 346 頁
...society would all but disappear. Renowned evangelist Billy Sunday proclaimed: The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be a memory. We will turn our...corncribs. Men will walk upright now, women will smile and children will laugh. Hell will be forIt didn't work. Instead, Prohibition became the nation's clearest... | |
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