Word: bacchic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thunder, and dying tones strike, now and then, out into the halls, like firecrackers on the morning of the Fourth. as the first mystic departs. It is a votive offering to the God of Chance, done with an artful restraint. In it there is not the exuberance of Bacchic indulgence, nor the incessant drumming and tapping of a dance. There is one vigorous thunder-clap, worked by unseen soles upon the floor; and that is all. It ascends to the ceiling; worn faces twist half-concernedly about; the sacred door-keepers smile in placid obeisance to a higher will...
...been told by football friends that they did not even hear the cheering during a game much less care whether there was any or not. Cheering is a stimulant for the cheerers. The fact that they once also carried flasks never, so far as I have heard, led any Bacchic enthusiast to demand the administration of alcoholic refreshment to the players between halves. But as--so I am told--it was formerly considered undesirable for too many of the spectators to become too exalted in one respect, so we have also been accustomed to put some check on our male...
...structure, honored in the past and haloed in the present, cannot fail to found a legendary cycle. Ghosts may creak its boards, vague shapes may flit from rafter to rafter, the vast silence of its dimness will overawe the intruder. The spirit of good cheer is abandoning its Bacchic board, but the void may yet be filled by the angel of venerability and contemplation which hovers about the acquiescent majesty of deserted grandeur...