Word: bohemianism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quietly in the pink stucco Banyuls house where he was born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over...
...since 1879, cavalry-mustached Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. The reactionaries of the day had missed the point about Louis Brandeis. whom they had sneeringly dubbed "Saint Louis of Boston." He was no political radical. He was almost mystically a believer in the individual. The son of a middle-class Bohemian immigrant who had fled after the European revolutions of 1848, Brandeis was born (Nov. 13, 1856) into the semi-frontier society of Kentucky, in an atmosphere of deeply felt, unquenchable individualism...
...handed over to them. . . . Everything that has happened since has only been the result of the surrender of Czechoslovakia, an error without precedent in history on the part of the British leaders and a masterpiece of treason on the part of the French." For the surrender of the Bohemian bastion handed Mitteleuropa to Germany...
...late John ("Wichita Bill") Noble was a Latin Quarter Bohemian, a noted painter of cowboys, sunrises and seascapes. He wore a five-gallon hat, called himself the "first white child born in Wichita." And he was hell on his own paintings. He often advised prospective customers not to buy them, often slashed them up, sometimes even bought back pictures he had sold, just to destroy them...
...goes about the city in a Bohemian costume that consists of a black Homburg hat, grey flannels, a Mackinaw and heavy brogans...