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...lend ye my name, and inspire ye to boot. And besides I'll instruct ye, like me, to intwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Squeakless Anthem | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

52nd Street (Walter Wanger). Time was when Manhattan's 52nd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue, was just as stuffy as the picture that bears its name. But in the last decade or so Bacchus and Momus have taken over the genteel brownstone houses whence Rhinelanders, Iselins, Fahnestocks, Vanderbilts once set forth in broughams to leave their cards. Today nightclubs jammed with swing bands and floor shows have chased away all but a last handful of old settlers. 52nd Street misses most of the swing, wastes too much time on the old settlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Funster House Committeemen issued the following statement last night in regard to tomorrow's festivities: "The followers of Bacchus will make merry, and there will be revelry and song, sweet music and gay laughter when maids and swains frolic under the ivy tower. The grape will flow from many a bowl, and there will be feasting in the great hall. Dinner will be served from 6 to 6:45, and there will be dancing from 6 to 12 at Dunster House after the Dartmouth game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 10/22/1937 | See Source »

...desire for a Red government. That is the most serious of their many mistakes. The man is dissatisfied with his economic position in our type of industrial society. He wants to gain a place in the upper brackets. In other words, this type of fellow, the sediment of Bacchus, seeks to satisfy his own interests. This is a far cry from the abolishment of Capitalism, Consequently, anyone who suppresses Communism in the United States does so, not out of fear, but rather because of the annoyance which it affords...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 10/31/1936 | See Source »

This year's award for torchbearer of righteousness goes by unanimous vote to the President of Princeton, who by an encyclical enclosed football tickets hopes to banish Bacchus from the Palmer Stadium. Through collaboration with the Bible and Lord Chesterfield President Dodds arrived at the scholarly conclusion that drinking at football games is poor manners. It follows that sobriety is laudable. So were the Ten Commandments and Wilson's Fourteen Points, but even the most inspired professor would think twice before attempting to enforce them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE US THIS DAY | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

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