Word: bohemianized
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Here he found the answer to complaints about the impracticability of dried, wax, papiermache, and alcohol-preserved flowers. Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, father and son, were expert practitioners of their Bohemian ancestors' glass artistry. Goodale went to Germany and persuaded them to take some time away from their lucrative marine work and devote it to the field of botany, which they had invaded before...
...opening on every side," but amid the slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants were "working at cigarmaking or needlework as soon as their little fingers could master a detail"-or were living by "thievery or . . . prostitution...
...goes to the university at Johannesburg, meets a group of intellectual beachcombers and feels liberated from the shoals of convention. Soon she breaks with her family because they refuse to accept a black friend into the lily-white sanctity of their home. She moves into the apartment of a bohemian couple and from there to the arms of Paul Clark, "an enchanting talker" with a seductive face. She is happy because of "the intensity of my identification with living," and because her lover, who works for the Native Affairs Department, is "at grips with the huge central problem...
Carefree Expatriate. Although he looks and acts like a Yankee intellectual, Governor Herter has spent less than half his life in Massachusetts, and his background is more bohemian than Brahmin. His architect grandfather, the first Christian Herter, came to the U.S. from Stuttgart at a time when the country was accumulating culture as rapidly and indiscriminately as it was founding fortunes. He found an eager clientele, built great mansions from Fifth Avenue (for J. P. Morgan, William Vanderbilt) to Nob Hill (for Mark Hopkins), and gilded them with the treasures of Europe. But grandfather had no taste for business...
...keep. The journey took eight pleasant months. In Marseille he settled down to steady work in a red-shuttered studio and to a genial evening round of opera and absinthe. It is said that when admirers flocked about his cafe table to praise his work, the bald, bearded old Bohemian would blithely reply: "I don't know what you're talking about; I just arrived from the moon...