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...Bacchanalian...
...Wichita, Kan., 102-year-old Mrs. Lucy Hatch pleaded with county commissioners that she might enter the poor farm, find refuge from the "mischievous ways" of her 70-year-old son, Harry. She told officials that he spent her money in "bacchanalian festivals and midnight parties...
...centered about the juice of the grape is Zaro Agha, recent American Anti-Alcohol importation, who is to incite chatter in Temperance troups and Women's Clubs from coast to coast. From the monotony of doorkeeping at the city hall of Istambul, faithful Zaro has never sought surcease in bacchanalian revel. For one hundred and fifty-six years he has serenely bowed before the city factota and with the same contemplative serenity seen eleven consecutive wives pass from his bed and board into the lap of Mother Earth...
...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...