Word: bacchanalian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Africa, many a tribal chieftain organizes periodic Bacchanalian orgies to ward off extinction, maintain virility...
...recall him. But his restoration was short-lived. Again he was exiled, and again his only companion was the Egyptian princess employed by Persia to plot against him, but compelled by devotion to succor and protect him. The story of their love is vivid against a background of Bacchanalian orgies, momentous gatherings in the Pnyx, subtle intrigues in Persian tents, sea-fights, trireme grappled to trireme...
...only to convert her wealth to the Church; and d'Orobelli to glean some gossip of Annie Spragg. Maundering, inaccurate, patronizing, Mrs. Weatherby said Annie had lived with her fanatic preacher brother at the edge of Winnebago Falls-her only companion a Hack goat, partner in her devilish Bacchanalian dances. That her father had been Cyrus Spragg, "the Prophet" in Illinois of a garish religion founded upon his own splendid sexual virility, Mrs. Weatherby preferred not to mention for reasons...
...HUBBY'S BACCHANALIAN ROUT...
...What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...