Word: comus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half a century, New Orleans' fantastic Mardi Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...many a New Orleans citizen there will be little rest even after all this uproar quiets down. It takes a year to plan a Mardi Gras, and 1949 would be along before you could say Comus Momus...
...last week. A swatch of black crepe hung over the picture of little, round-faced Dr. J. Leon Lascoff in the Manhattan drugstore he founded in 1899. He was the dean of the old-fashioned U.S. pharmacists - the proud little group to whom a soda fountain and its attendant Comus' crew are anathema...