Word: dionysiac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ella Alexander Boole, indefatigable world president of the W.C.T.U., got the idea that liberated Europeans are giving U.S. troops a Dionysiac welcome, deplored it: "Why, they're drinking wine. Wine! They're offering our boys jugs of wine. They could just as easily have given them fruit juices...
Hollywood is her element. The vibrations are right. The rarefied atmosphere exhilarates instead of suffocating her. She is possessed not only of Dionysiac energy but also of an all but demoniac appetite for expending it. All of each day, from 9 to 7, she pours this boiling vitality into office work, as lavishly over minor details as major crises. All of each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant...
...York Herald Tribune, another reporter, sensitively attuned to ihe muffled sound of plush meeting plush, described revelry in Manhattan. Wrote Columnist Lucius Beebe: "The gold rush is on. ... New York is only now in its finest and ultimate dionysiac frenzies. . . . It is only necessary to belly up to the bar at Monte Carlo ... or insinuate yourself past the five or six dinner-jacketed guards at the Stork...