Word: bohemian
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...somewhat perfect nose would scarce be noticed to have been turned up, owing to sleeping on her stomach". At the same time "she was just a lowborn girl, but none could beat her at playing the piano". And Mr. Withersq is no piker. He crashes right into a Bohemian festival the first night out, visits the exotic "Mauve Loft" the next morning and by evening has been officially appointed Head Poet of England...
...Washington Square and her home town of Rockland, Me., was great; but it did not disconcert her. She soon became a legend. Her poetry was widely read, her charms widely heralded. She was a poet of renown and even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When one saw her, she seemed frailer than ever. It was rumored that...
...Gabrilowitsch, with the Detroit orchestra, enters loudly into the Mahler controversy. The conductor is busy, with augmented orchestra and large chorus, rehearsing the Bohemian composer's huge " Resurrection" symphony, which will be performed early next month. The outcry of the people who dislike Mahler's music will arise in as great a fortissimo as any in the symphony...
...POOR MAN?Stella Benson? Macmillan ($2.00). The unheroic " hero " is a " poor, sickly thing," a contemptible, insignificant, friendless Englishman. The book is a catalog of his inadequacies, as opposed to the very different inadequacies of those who despise him, in bohemian California, on the Yangtze in China. The author's pen is a sharp, acidulous weapon...
Monsieur Antoine, another well-known critic, has said: "In Beranger, one feels that Guitry has wanted to relax himself by a return to delightful fantasy. In it, all is grace and lightness amidst the delightful Bohemian atmosphere of all these charming figures...