Word: satyricon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Satyricon is an account of the wanderings and fantastic adventures of a coaple of tramp students whose lecheries, boozing, brawling, and generally disorderly conduct along the high roads of Italy are graphically recounted in the current slang of the period. Their activities are all charmingly debased and come under the main heads of alcoholic, criminal and amourous, and include almost constant indulgence in those pursuits which secured for two cities of biblical fame a bad reputation and a pyrotechnical destruction...
...Vengeance; also, an attempt was made to interfere with the private performance of Schnitzler's " Riegen," also-within a few months judges in New York have been called upon to express their opinion of Cabell's Jurgen, D. H. Lawrence's three latest novels, the Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter. The law allows artists more liberty than they realize, for proceedings against them are usually extralegal. The statute in New York, the result of the efforts of the late Anthony Comstock has received a liberal interpretation. Ordinarily, to be suppressed: (1) a book, play, or picture must...
...want to find out more about that, you must ask Freud, who, no doubt, knows more about fairy tales than most of us. . ." I suppose that we may soon overhear from the nursery, "Now, Mary, stop crying, and mama'll read you some pretty stories out of the Satyricon." Incidentally, I wonder what complex led Mr. Train to use "woken" as a past participle...