Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence:* in the early summer of 1813, Frau Wagner journeyed with her newborn infant smack through the middle of a Napoleonic war to visit Geyer, who was playing at a spa in Bohemia. She left six moppets-the youngest aged two-at home in Leipzig. Contrary to the custom of the times, Richard was not baptized until twelve weeks after his birth. His legal father died three months later. Widow Wagner married Geyer the following summer, bore him a daughter six months after...
...Christmas some of the aircraft works shut for the week. Sundays and half Saturdays were sacrosanct. Last winter it was Britain who slept. Therefore we ask soberly now what is this year's winterset? . . . The Boche are working late this winter. In the shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least 120,000,000 in the heart of Europe is directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale...
Young Oskar Graf was neither peasant like his mother nor petty merchant like his father. So he ran away from home to the arty and radical circles of Munich's Bohemia, where "nothing was so taboo as sentimentality," where anarchism, drunkenness and futurism foretold coming decades of disintegration. They came: the World War, the Bavarian Soviet Republic, inflation, hunger, humiliation, the Nazis. Oskar Graf thought more & more of his mother. He identified her with the masses, "the blameless German people . . . already behind the plow, in the workshops, factories, and offices, working as hard as ever, without particularly concerning themselves...
...same so-called invasion ports. Raids continued on Berlin and the German censor released a picture of a bad fire set by the R. A. F. (see cut). The British also repeated familiar missions to industrial centres. For the first time they bombed the Skoda works in Bohemia...
...shot mangy dogs, shot the peacocks that soiled the lawns and the drawing-room rugs, drank, hunted, carried on affairs with the servants, speculated with his wife's money. At last George Sand dashed off to Paris and Author Jules San-deau, who greeted her with: "Welcome to Bohemia...