At an infamous murder trial in New York City in 1927:
Moral context was added by three leading evangelists: Billy Sunday, Aimee Semple McPherson, and John Roach Stanton. Stanton was famous for hating almost everything---“card playing, cocktail drinking, poodle dogs, jazz music, the theater, low-cut dresses, divorce, novels, stuffy rooms, Clarence Darrow, overeating, the Museum of Natural History, evolution, the Standard Oil Influence in the Baptist church, prizefighting, the private lives of actors, nude art, bridge playing, modernism, and greyhound racing,” according to one partial contemporary accounting. To this list he was now happy to add [the defendants] Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; they couldn’t be executed fast enough, as far as he was concerned. McPherson, more moderately, offered prayers and the hope that God would teach young men everywhere to think “I want a wife like Mother---not a red hot cutie.”
---from One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson.
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