Word: bonbon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot see. Few such gentry were in the Cleveland audience which last week heard a drunken Russian cab driver conduct the Volga boat-song. Nicolai Sokolov, Cleveland Orchestra conductor, famed interpreter of the Russians, had just directed his orchestra through an all-Tchaikovsky program that ranged from a tuneful bonbon for fatigued capitalists (the Sleeping Beauty Waltz) to the rounded maturity of the Fourth Symphony-all played magnificently. When the concert was over, 100 guests remained, having been notified of a "Concert by a Visiting Orchestra -Sokolai Nikoloffsky, conductor." The program: I. Echoes from Home, song of Vulgar Vodka...
That a lashing with knotted cords, wielded by women, is funny will never occur to the Priest of Bonbon. For it was he who was thus scourged. But set in the headlines of the New York World, this bit of medieval calisthenics requires a civilized smile at the futility of ancient tortures...