Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orchestra, which suffers in comparison with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, has given many a noteworthy concert, but for years it was a bone of contention between wealthy Jews who liked and supported hulking Conductor Alfred Hertz, and the Bohemian Club element who have never quite forgiven Hertz for displacing their convivial clubmember, Henry Hadley...
...minutes and try or pretend to sketch her. Elsewhere in the Drake that evening were peep shows, slot machines, bars, roulette tables, smart shops, fortune telling booths, a gangplank and reproduction of one side of the lie de France. Milling around in costumes that tried earnestly to look bohemian were 2,500 Chicago socialites and celebrities. Fresh from welcoming Governor Roosevelt to town, Mayor Anton Joseph Cermak arrived in an orange beret, stayed late...
Neighbor Rosicky, when Doctor Burleigh told him he had a bad heart, said, "So? No, I guess my heart was always pretty good. I got a little asthma, maybe." A Bohemian farmer with Rosicky's resilient enjoyment of life was not likely to be much worried but Rosickv's wife made him sit in the kitchen and take life easy while his sons did the plowing. Rosicky's long habit of friendliness finally got the better of him. He thought the thistles ought to be cleared out of the alfalfa field on his son Rudolph's farm...
...devoid of sentiment except in one matter-that of the Bohemian Union Bank," said Director Vavrecka last week. "It was the Olmutz branch of that bank which 30 years ago extended him the loan that proved to be the turning point of his career. Till the day of his death Mr. Bat'a insisted that all the business of his huge concern should go through the little Olmutz branch bank...
...offering company was Fidelio Brewery, Inc., of Manhattan. The offer was made by Bauer, Pogue & Co., and consisted of 500,000 $1 par shares at $2. Fidelio started in 1852 as H. Koehler & Co., ale-brewers. It was later bought by Samuel Goldberger, Bohemian hop tycoon. His son, Norman S. Goldberger, is president of the company now, having worked in it since he was graduated from Columbia in 1904. Many of the other employes are working in positions once held by their fathers, including a brewmaster whose father mixed Fidelio's brews from...