Word: bohemianized
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Once Baby gets there, Novelist Robert Lowry begins mixing a thunderstorm of violence. Uncomplicated, and decidedly no bohemian, Fighter Baby figures Laine is crazy to fall in love with a "spook," as he calls himself, but he enjoys driving her around in his Cadillac and ending the evenings in her apartment. For Laine, whose heart is a haunted house crowded with the memories of a broken marriage, two other love affairs and a stumbling career as a second-rate painter, Baby is a kind of dark Galahad of the Life Force. One day when she is babbling on about...
...tipsy at official functions. When he returned to Prague, he looked well enough as he briskly reviewed an honor guard at the airport. But the next day he was ill. A clutch of doctors, including two Russians, called to his bedside in Hradcany Castle (medieval seat of the Bohemian kings), diagnosed his trouble as pneumonia and pleurisy...
...Italy three years ago. A swarthy, husky type with hot brown eyes and a mane of jet-black hair, she lives in a littered London flat, dresses like a dock-walloper and, while she works, sings arias from her favorite operas between puffs on a cigar. For an old Bohemian like Augustus John, Fiore was just what the doctor ordered...
...school in Paris. He hid his provincial manners with an abrasive gruffness, but he could scarcely hide his provincial ignorance. In his final exam he declared that Charlemagne died in the 16th century, was forthwith flunked for being off by some 700 years. Apparently unconcerned, he plunged into a Bohemian life, took a tart for a mistress, and during one starved winter dressed in blankets because he had pawned even his last pair of pants to keep her. He wrote a trilogy of epic poems, notably bad and terribly long. His family, through a friend, got him a job before...
John Herbert Davison 1G winner of the Bohemian Club Prize, received a similar grant from the income from the fund for a Suite for Piano. The prizes were announced simultaneously with the Bowdoin Prizes in literature for undergraduates...