Word: bohemianized
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Into the factory city of Oppeln and as close to the battling Red Armies as they could crowd, the Polish Government's plenipotentiaries pushed toward a proposed frontier that would follow the Oder River from the Bohemian mountains through Pomerania to the Baltic...
...industrial Bratislava on the east bank of the Danube. From Bratislava the Red Army might divide into two forces. One could fight up the Danubian gateway to Germany through Vienna to Linz, Munich and Nürnberg. The other could follow the Moravian gateway to northern Czechoslovakia-the Bohemian bastion.* Other Russian forces now before Cracow could move in to join the Bohemian drive through the Oder...
...Said Bismarck: "He who controls the Bohemian bastion controls Europe...
...dislike for "cheating pennies out of poor devils poorer than meself." When he learns that his Ma (Ethel Barrymore) is soon to die of cancer, he stays home for a change, helping her with her fusty second-hand goods shop, fending off the devotions of a gently Bohemian cellist (Jane Wyatt) and, rather against his will, falling harder & harder for Ada (June Duprez), the cash-girl at a clattering little Fun Fair...
...budget of many a city thrice its size, Long Beach (pop. 225,000) spends $86,210 a year on its municipal band. In the sparkling California summer, when the band's 33 members move out of the Municipal Auditorium and strike up Hawaiian Medley or Gems from the Bohemian Girl in the seaside bandstand, Long Beachers walk thither with springy steps, feeling that their money has been well spent. Last week an audience of 5,000 swarmed on the sand to hear the opening concert of the summer season...