Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart attack. Still seeking the highest moral good, Michael and Mary decide to conceal the truth of the incident from the courts for their son's sake. A decade later, when Michael explains the whole history to the boy and informs him that he is a bastard, the boy offers not the slightest objection...
...April 2, 1725, in Venice, was born Giacomo Giralamo Casanova, possibly a bastard, probably a most consummate liar, certainly a very exceptional rogue. His father, Gaetan, was ''amorous, but without means;" his mother, Zanetta, an actress, no better than she should have been. Young Casanova's propensities, thus honestly acquired, were opportunist, not to say immoral, and he followed his bent. When he was 72, he wrote his famed Memoirs, The Story of My Life Until the Year...
...baby was born, died. M. Allemand-the only one who knew-forced his hand, won the girl for his wife, thus vastly increasing his social status. But by that time he had become village librarian and Mme Bourrat devised a theory that he was the bastard son of a noble, thereby salving her own social consciousness and impressing her relatives. As for the girl-she would have been happy to marry anyone...
...Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, defeated the English, and with the aid of Joan of Arc saved France for King Charles VII. Last week Princess Charlotte, illegitimate and adopted daughter of the Prince of Monaco, rose from her sickbed at Nice and saved Monaco for Prince Louis...
Only her husband's solicitor knows this and when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...