Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dangers of communication by telephone,"-and sent both clippings to old chum and fellow Republican National Committeeman, President William Henry Crocker of Crocker First National Bank of San Francisco (who arrived last week in Manhattan). It was revealed that for nearly 25 years, since they first met at the Bohemian Club's jolly grove near San Francisco, Pedagog Butler and Banker Crocker have been regaling each other across the continent, exchanging things they find amusing. Sometimes they send jokes, sometimes crank letters; but mostly clippings of those little boxed stories called "freaks"' which are the delight of make...
Today is the last day for handing in compositions for the Bohemian Club Prize in Music...
...twice it looked as though that would settle Ferdinand's hash. But he came through, with wounds, decorations and a reputation among radicals because he had refused to execute three soldiers. In the turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went to see Nurse Barbara for the last time he was horrified that she should...
...William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson after three blustering terms in city hall, voted in Democrat Anton Joseph ("Tony") Cermak. The Cermak majority was 200,000. In line with Press polls which plainly foreshadowed the defeat of "Thompsonism," the second city of the land had chosen a onetime pushcart peddler, Bohemian-born, to preside at its World's Fair in 1933. His biggest promise: "Restoration of Chicago's lost reputation...
...been educated in England, lives in Paris, but goes to the U. S. to visit his younger brother, who has married a rich Manhattanite and become a respectable U. S. broker. Andre himself has enough money to do nothing, and lives according to his income. But he has Bohemian tastes and his sister-in-law runs him ragged, bores him to death with an interminable succession of highly respectable entertainments. One afternoon Andre, left unguarded for a few minutes, spies a temptingly good and quite empty car in front of the house, hops in and flees down Long Island...