Word: bacchus
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...Government began a retreat from the high, dry mountain of Prohibition to the low, wet valleys in the land of Bacchus; the National Assembly renounced prohibition by substituting a new liquor...
House of Lords. Viscount Astor, in moving the second reading of his wife's bill to prevent the sale of intoxicants to persons under the age of 18 years, gave Lord Dawson, King's Physician, an opportunity of eulogizing Bacchus. He said that alcohol, if taken in moderation, added to " the pleasure, exhilaration, happiness and gayety of life." For the practical purposes of the bill he said that alcohol was not necessary to youth, as experience showed that it was at the tender ages damaging to the nervous system...
...Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo 5. Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg 6. Saeterjentens Sondag ("Solitude on the Mountain") Ole Bull 7. "Valse Triste" Sibelius 8. Carnival in Paris Svendsen 9. "Ekko fra Norden", Selection of Norwegian Airs Wick 10. Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmj(Violin, Harp, Strings and Organ) 11. Procession of Bacchus Delibes...
...personal letters of student to father or father to student. Requests for money predominated the letters addressed to fathers. In fact, rhetoricians made a respectable income by writing for students letters guaranteed to arouse compassion. One student added at the end of his letter. "Without Ceres and Bacchus, Apollo grows cold," while another wrote that the messenger from home bringing money had been robbed...
...brave at tempt to hide their sorrow. They have even started search for a new song. But whatever they may produce, it will never have the inspiration of the old one. In years to come when memory has dimmed, and they chant hymns to Dame Nicotine instead of Lord Bacchus, they may, with the perpetual optimism of the human race, imagine that the substitute is "Just as good", that they have cheated the muse. But she will know better...