Word: bohemianized
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...cooperation toward the drama, the Dramatic Club twice yearly puts forth its best efforts to bring experimental and unique plays to Cambridge. But without an administrative benediction on the theatre as a whole, these efforts have kept the wolf from the Big Tree door only by the most Bohemian frugality...
Smart editors exploited young Seabrook's flair for abnormality. For them he covered deaths, murders, freaks, women bandits, gruesome accidents. Bohemian society was charmed by the thwarted, dark-haired man who shambled about like a hobo, was chummy with Arab sheiks, dined with African cannibals, plunged ecstatically into Haitian voodoo...
Rossetti, who had once urged Pre-Raphaelites to "abjure bohemianism," was the most bohemian of the group. He collected "kangaroos, a wallaby, a chameleon, some salamanders, wombats, an armadillo, a marmot, a woodchuck, a deer, a jackass, a raccoon. . . ." He bought a Brahmin bull because its eyes reminded him of one of his lady friends. Even his Pre-Raphaelite brothers were gradually estranged by Rossetti's eccentricities. When the novelist George Meredith made an annoying remark, Rossetti simply threw a cup of tea in his face. But some hero-worshipers remained faithful. "Why is he not some great exiled...
...Bohemian Club Prize of $75, for as original musical composition, was awarded to Allen D. Sapp, Jr., of Brya Mawr, Pa., for a sonaia for cello and piano...
...hand for the school's launching at a luncheon in San Francisco's Bohemian Club was Humanist Lewis Mumford. Said he: "Here is a challenge to a fresh creative effort in education . . . the production of complete human beings, harmoniously disciplined to create within themselves and within their society the order that will banish the barbarous mechanisms and the mechanized barbarisms that now threaten...