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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Africa, many a tribal chieftain organizes periodic Bacchanalian orgies to ward off extinction, maintain virility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Intellectual Mean | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Atkerton, B.C. | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juxtaposition | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

...HUBBY'S BACCHANALIAN ROUT...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 12/3/1927 | See Source »

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