Word: bohemianism
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...Columbia and Decca, and turned down various offers from bigtime bands. He prefers to stick with his own six-piece group ("five men and one musician") and his regular circuit of small Wisconsin towns. Six nights a week he plays hot, fast and loud for dances attended by Dutch, Bohemian, Belgian, German and Polish groups. In Wisconsin, no one has ever disputed the "King's" title...
...prongs cut up from Hungary and down from Silesia, ripping toward the Bohemian bastion. In three months Colonel General Johannes Friessner had sacrificed four of his eleven armored divisions to drive the Russians back from the southern entrances to this natural fortress...
Principal sponsor of last week's "Declaration of European Interdependence" was Count Richard N. Coudenhove-Kalergi, a Bohemian citizen of the world turned visiting professor of history at New York University. His best-selling Crusade for Pan-Europe (TIME, Nov. 29, 1943) vividly diagnosed the "incurable disease" of nationalism, advocated a United States of Europe as the best palliative...
Only around the rim of the Bohemian bastion were Wehrmacht divisions on the offensive. Probable German objective: to hold this natural fortress for a last fanatical stand...
...Mitchell better watch his stop. When insulted by some Bowery stroller, Gould snaps erect and lashes out with a storm of invective without over repeating himself, "Madam," he has said, "It is the duty of the bohemian to make a spectacle of himself. If may informality leads you to believe that I am a rum-dumb or that I belong in Bellevue, then hold fast to that belief; hold fast, and show your ignorance...