Word: bacchanalians
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Then, in 1854, the bacchanalian boom ended and the academic bust began with the first finals. Perhaps to offset the pleasant nostalgia of other documents, Shipton keeps a complete series of all examinations in 641 volumes. They attract a yearly quota of students hoping to find a trend in some lazy professor's questioning technique...
...woman's magazine, Britannia and Eve, that Matania found his real career. He filled his London studio with reproductions of Roman furniture, pored over history books for suitably lively subjects. Then, with the help of models and statues, he began to paint such subjects as Samson & Delilah, the bacchanalian roisters of ancient Rome, and even early American Indian maidens-all with the same careful respect for accuracy and detail he had used in his news assignments...
...surrounded by tables replete with beer and set-ups. Just below this upper level academic stork club can be found a more intimate and elegant dance for an extracurricular group with a social bent. Next door, amid the topography of Women Hall's Wheeler Room, a smoky and more Bacchanalian dance for a like minded organization fills the sunken garden with sounds evidencing that the "whole man" has arrived at the graduate school...
...musical, Out of this World, opened in Boston, orders, went out to tidy up the lyrics and dress up the cast, particularly Venus, who wore only four white doves. The producers agreed, grumbling: "We regret that the Boston censor has found reason to be shocked by the authentic Greek bacchanalian atmosphere...
...Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...