Word: dionysus
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...Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus!" Inhabitants of the haughty International Settlement regarded the Mission area at South Gate as a cross between the frontier and a zoo. The so-called "honey-boats" drifted slowly down the neighboring canal, carrying Shanghai's human excrement to the truck farms. The dusty road was always filled with grunting pigs on their way to slaughter. Under the willow trees old Chinese lay dozing, waiting for their daily lunch of sparrows to get stuck on the bird-limed twigs...
There were the usual Occidental eccentrics - British Miss Roder, who spent most of her time washing off Chinese contamination in boracic acid; American Mrs. Sedley, who believed she was "the nymph of the spring" and danced around a water hole in nightgown and flowers, crying: "Evoe! Evoe! Dionysus, Dionysus...
...squads of servants, instructors and tutors for his son and two daughters. In his Florentine study were two desks: one with a typewriter; the other with a quill pen for the abstruse, elegant poetry he liked to write but seldom sold (only two volumes were published: The Village Street, Dionysus in Hades...
...Greek tragedy arose out of frenzied satyr dances in honor of Dionysus. (Tragedy comes from Tragos, a goat...
There's nothing new, even in theatre critics. Mr. Benchley's commentary on "Mourning Becomes Electra" was a dirge over his own tired extremities. Was it not Sthenodes who rushed from the Theatre of Dionysus, crying "hoigar tephaloi" ("my buttocks hurt...