Word: debauch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happens to Langrish after that, in The Image of a Drawn Sword, proves that British Novelist Jocelyn Brooke can create as violent fictional disturbances as anyone now writing in English. Compared to it, his first tense little gothic novel, The Scapegoat (TIME, Jan. 9, 1950), was a mild emotional debauch...
...much as ?10 a seat was demanded," says Author O'Donnell, "and the surrounding viewpoints in the street were thronged with deliriously excited men & women who gathered in position on the eve of the execution, whiling away the long night hours with song and dance and drunken debauch...
...simpering clerks, the passionate but suppressed girls whom Turgenev paints are universal types, recognizable in any environment. And some of his best stories have nothing to do with serfdom: The Singers, a rousing account of a singing duel between a peasant and a tradesman which ends in a drunken debauch, and Bezhin Meadow, a tender portrait of a group of boys whom the sportsman meets one evening...
...danger and brought a fortune in furs out of virgin streams. For most of them, the yearly rendezvous, a "combined festival and fair" in the wilderness, was their only contact with civilization. There they sold their furs, bought their supplies and spent their hard-earned profits in "roaring, riotous debauch, devoted in about equal measure to lethal whisky, reckless gambling . . .and an orgy of sexual abandon with the complacent Indian girls and squaws." The sun-blackened trappers modeled them selves after their No. 1 foe, the Indian...