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Word: bohemianism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Characters are a set of bohemian rapscallions of both sexes who infest a pension in Paris and call themselves the Barbarians. Ready for anything, especially a change of scene or conversation, they flit en masse to the Riviera, where they continue to astound the bourgeois with their wisecracks and giddy japes, indulge in a few harmless bedroom scenes, fall in & out of love, flit back to Paris again and continue their galvanic act until their stage manager's timely curtain. Samples of their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Epigrammar | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

...Wedding Night (Samuel Goldwyn). Tony Barrett (Gary Cooper) and his wife (Helen Vinson) return to his inherited Connecticut farmhouse so that he can write a novel undistracted by their Bohemian friends. Their next door neighbors are a family of Polish tobacco farmers whose quaint ways appear to Tony ideal material for a book. When the Poles buy one of his fields, he lets his wife go back to town with the money, settles down to serious research on his subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Mar. 25, 1935 | 3/25/1935 | See Source »

...Behrman's theme of the struggle between mature tolerance and impulsive youth has been scrapped. In its place is a story more suited to the specialized talents of Ann Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 3/7/1935 | See Source »

Sculpture is a heavy medium for humor. An exhibition by Detroit-born Stuart Benson at the Ferargil Galleries attracted attention last week because of a group of carved caricatures. Two were excellent, those of Adolf Hitler and of long-haired Gilbert White, the U. S.-born professional Montparnasse Bohemian (TIME, April 2). The rest of the 23 figures in the Benson show-garden figures, portrait heads, busts-were carefully wrought, eminently worthy. Like so many of his compatriots Sculptor Benson was a longtime resident of France. Left high by the receding dollar, he avoided Paris, ran a studio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hoffman, Lachaise, Noguchi | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Herr Wormys wriggled from the Nazis' grasp. They drew pistols, shot him dead. Said the presumably bribed Bohemian innkeeper and his wife next morning, "We never heard a sound." Police found the room riddled with bullets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Murder Party | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

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