Word: bacchanalian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...
...long ago, the staid and refined Cantabridgia Club was transformed with the help of several sheets of orchid tinted boarding into the bacchanalian Club 100. Several blocks from this whoopee manufactory stands another old establishment with a new lease on life: yellow, clapboarded Brattle Hall. For years an annual set of Saturday night subscription dances, fondly remembered by contemporaries of U. M. Pulbam and others as the "Brats," were held here. And sporadically, throughout many a winter, its grimly rearward rooms were taken over by obstreperous young amateur thespians who would onliven otherwise dull performances by jiggling scenery and communicating...
...TIME, Dec. 30], I was piqued into trying it with mine. The experiment went well until the reading of Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County (which county, incidentally, we Westerners seem unable to pronounce).* At that point, the wildest of bacchanalian orgies ensued. At length, after recovering from shock, I relegated the mice to an unused bird cage and covered the whole disagreeable scene with one of my old sweatshirts...
Despite inexperience, shortages, Latin politicking and bacchanalian waste, a major share of the road was laid down, some of it paved. Keeping a weather eye out for tropical rainstorms and stalled oxcarts, Central Americans now drive over most of Guatemala, El Salvador. Honduras and Nicaragua. But U.S. motorists won't get to Guatemala until the Mexicans finish the 420 miles from Oaxaca south to the border. In Costa Rica and in part of Panama, mountain and jungle still stand before giant bulldozers and power shovels. Last fortnight those giants got fresh energy when a new U.S. appropriation...
...bacchanalian thought pattern was disturbed by the bells, which maddeningly stopped after playing three-quarters of their tune. Vag vaguely remembered something about a ten o'clock class, and hoisting himself up, he moved his tie one quarter of an inch to the right, straightened the little gold bird on his lapel, and started off with a long-ago-and-faraway look on his face. Floating up Holyoke Street and across Mass. Avenue, F. Scott Fitzvag entered a strangely quiet Yard. Harvard Hall, his destination, was deserted. It is now Monday morning at ten o'clock, said...