Word: bohemianism
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...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...
...LaRue, of Ann Arbor, Mich., '39, currently a travelling fellow in Music, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won the Bohemian Club Prize, awarded for the best essay on musical composition for one or two instruments. LaRue wrote a Suite for Clarinet and Piano...
...oldsters who fought the Independents' first battles still slay long-dead dragons with all their old zest. As a prelude to this year's Silver Jubilee, a group of oldtimers, with some 300 friends and admirers, crowded the Independents' old hangout: Petitpas, a venerable Bohemian French restaurant on Manhattan's lower West Side. Their guest of honor was a small, garrulous, bespectacled oldster who had risen from a sickbed to be there. For 24 of its 25 years he had been the Society's president. His name was a famous one in U.S. art: John...