Word: saturnalian
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...before the dawn. . . . When dawn came, Paris gendarmes-as is customary this one night of the year-offered no objections to the staggering rout that chortled, hiccuped and quarreled homeward with grease paint run amuck and hardly enough draperies among the multitude to have warmed a frog. Scenes of Saturnalian abandonment had been enacted-frenzied dancing, delirious overtures, posturing, French embraces and the parade of "beauty unadorned," in which "La Belle Hélène," a highland peasant wench but lately come to Paris, had been elected "Empress of the Voluptuous Contours" and suitably saluted...