saturnalia

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The riot may have been a saturnalia of stupid, but we need to take it seriously.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2022

In 1930-31, for instance, steamship lines began running week-end cruises, or saturnalia, outside the Twelve Mile Limit.

From Time Magazine Archive

But three months of wandering, trimming and revision have turned it into a saturnalia as amusing as it is brash.

From Time Magazine Archive

But to the zealous guardsmen the party was saturnalia run amuck, and so they reported to their commanding officer, who alerted the military at Malaga.

From Time Magazine Archive

As one of the largest stockholders in the road John Jacob Astor, Jr., certainly must have been one of the masked parties to this continuous saturnalia of corruption.

From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers