Word: bacchanalians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avenue roadhouse near Detroit on the night of Nov. 5 last at which a governor of Michigan, a chief of police and four judges were present with gamblers, criminals and bootleggers. The revelry included dances by naked hootchy-koochy girls - and all the rest of it. It was a Bacchanalian orgy...
...those of Hollywood!" declared Ted Lewis, the musical clown whose phrase, "Is everybody happy?" is known to followers of the stage and screen all over the country, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter last night at the Metropolitan Theatre. "The rot that is printed about the sin and bacchanalian revels of the screen stars is just evil publicity. I saw no more evidences of immorality or of unmorality while in California than you can find right here in this city...
...short, the Vagabond means that void between the end of examinations and the beginning of the next term. Most undergraduates have anywhere from a week to ten days of freedom with nothing in prospect but a bacchanalian wassail or a scant jaunt to the hearth of his childhood. Both of these have their disadvantages. The first, purely aside from constitutional controversy, is bound to grow tiresome as a steady diet, and the latter very likely proves an unwonted strain on the purse-strings...