Word: bacchanalians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unexpectedly, the 100% black Africans did their best cavorting in Stravinsky's 100% Slavic opus. In the Bacchanalian Children of the Earth (music by Negro "Composer Reginald Forsythe) the attempted emulsion of ballet technique and hot-cha failed to mix. St. Louis Women (music by famed W. C. Handy) was straight hot-cha, and might have been done better at the Cotton Club. Encouraged by first-nighters' applause, softspoken, boyish-faced von Grona and his blonde wife Leni decided that their Negro ballet had a great future...
Louis XV died of smallpox after "a Bacchanalian party at which a dairymaid was bathed, combed and perfumed, and placed in his bed. . . ." Next morning he fell ill. The incident, says Dr. Kemble, "was not the source of Louis' infection, for a period of some twelve days elapses between the date of contact with smallpox and the appearance of the first signs of illness...
...attitude of France in the current crisis reminds one strongly of the late Nero, who is reported to have played a bacchanalian love ditty on his fiddle while Poppea was seducing his chief minister: Ever since the Huns invaded the sacred area of Montmartre in the seventies, Marianne has suspected the lusty Max of evil intentions. And with the advent of Hitler, those suspicions have changed into horrified terror...
After a long sobering up period following the Bacchanalian orgy of July, 1933, the liquor stocks again show promise. The old drinker's advice to "take a little of the hair of the dog that bit you" may prove profitable, especially Distillers and Schenley. Other good bets are Chrysler and Harvester. Among the rails, Atchison in the upper price range, and Southern Pacific and Southern Railway in the lower brackets look attractive...
Administrators of the estate of the late Ivar Kreuger announced that, to satisfy creditors, $100,000 worth of his silverware, books, paintings, including a Bacchanalian by Peter Paul Rubens valued at $20,000, will be sold at auction in Jersey City. In Stockholm Torsten Kreuger was fined 1,500.000 kroner (about $390,000) and sentenced to one year's hard labor for his part in his brother's crockery. Administrators of the estate of Chicago's late Edith Rockefeller McCormick announced that the furnishings of her Romanesque Lake Shore Drive town house will be auctioned next month...