Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czechoslovak glass makers whose low prices have long given competitors World headaches announced last week that the North Bohemian Works have perfected "glass razor blades, supple and sharp as steel." A glass razor blade, the Czechoslovaks boasted, achieves at last the ideal toward which all safety razor makers have been striving: It positively cannot be re-sharpened...
...Bohemian Girl last week at the State College football field in Ames...
...reckless bohemian in his early manhood. Hearn had declared his acceptance of paganism as a way of life, and had frequently expressed his distaste for U. S. civilization, for "all that is energetic, swift, rapid ... all competition, rivalry, all striving in the race for success"; had characterized New York as a monstrous "city walled up to the sky and roaring like the sea." Since his death in 1904 the legend has grown that he was a writer whose great natural gifts were frustrated, that his slight and graceful essays are no true indication of his stature. Critics w?ho believe...
...time he had become a Japanese citizen Hearn, no longer a bohemian, insisted that "no boy or girl should ever be left unguarded." His son recalls him as too strict in his morality, declares that at the sight of some modern customs he "would surely have lost consciousness...
Marion (Ann Harding) is a sophisticated artist, whose affairs had been construed to be slightly Bohemian, and therefore to Dick Kurt (Montgomery) the hardboiled magazine editor, presented themselves as good copy. Leavening this wheat of Mr. Behrman's, Una Merkel and Edward Everett Horton as fiancee and ponderous senator-to-be prove entirely successful. The "senator" also becomes the butt of the editor's vituperation on the political and economic condition of the country--which elicits merited approval of the audience...