Word: bacchanalians
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...What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...
...Child of the Age, disciple of the ancient Omar, sings a bacchanalian ditty, one of those flower-that-once has-blown-for-ever-dies songs...
...position. Commissioner-Author Enright's maiden "thriller," Vultures of the Dark," was featured in Flynn's. The New York World: "To read that 'Fifth Avenue stretched its lancelike length in mirrored sheen,' to read of a party that was 'a modernized version of a Bacchanalian revel with a pseudo-Egyptian setting,' and of a kiss that was 'ambrosia, sipped from a rare chalice' . . . almost any reader might be pardoned for thinking the Commissioner had been an author all his life...
Inanimate objects, however, are not the only targets of this petty but altogether barbarous vice. If M. Barbot had remained with his machine, his overalls or whatever aviators wear, would probably be decorating some New Jersey villa; certainly Boston women assailed the fair Rodolpho as furiously as ever the Bacchanalian revellers rent poor Orpheus. The Enthusiasm of the demoniac souvenir-fiend is boundless, and if half of the present monuments are to be kept for posterity to admire, vigorous measures will have to be adopted...
Those who read the Lampoon regularly have long grown accustomed to a dull Freshman Number at the beginning of the year. For apparently summer vacations do not lighten the touch of the Muses; and even the Bacchanalian revels of those editors who re-create abroad seem to weigh heavily upon a jester's pen. This being so, the quantity of amusing verses, apothgems and drawings in the current number augurs well for a good year of the magazine. Several pages, it is true, are obviously filled with stuffing--with the tatulent buffoonery which comes of labored writing. Almost invariably...